Sellers are advertising Covid-19 date stamps and badges for sale on Amazon which could help people falsely claim they have had their vaccination. Some 28million Britons have so far received their first dose of the jab, and everyone who is vaccinated receives a card stating the name, date and batch number of the inoculation they … Read more
Pensioner takes on leasehold ‘con’ housing giant after sales team failed to tell him he wouldn’t own freehold of £328,000 home – in landmark case that could affect thousands Terry Dodd claims he was ‘conned’ into buying £327,750 home by Morris Homes Mr Dodd claims the Morris Homes sales team failed to reveal it was a … Read more
Pensioner takes on housing giant over its leasehold ‘con’ after sales team failed to tell him he would not own the freehold when he bought £328,000 home Terry Dodd claims he was ‘conned’ into buying £327,750 home by Morris Homes Mr Dodd claims the Morris Homes sales team failed to reveal it was a leasehold … Read more
Moment woman is caught on doorbell cam ‘trying to con her way into house shouting ”I need help!” in ”damsel in distress” scam before being scared off by the owner’s dog’ Ring doorbell camera footage shows woman outside Gants Hill home in Ilford Woman shouts: ‘I need help! Please help. Please help me’ outside front … Read more
Crooks con £55,000 a day out of lonely hearts during an online dating boom in lockdown By Fiona Parker For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 9 February 2021 Romance fraudsters are stealing more than £50,000 a day during an online dating boom in lockdown. There was a … Read more
Online vehicle scams are on the rise with victims losing a total of £16.5million in nine months of this year alone, new research has revealed. This is up 10 per cent on the same months of March and November last year, according to data from Action Fraud. Vehicle scams often involve fraudsters posting images of … Read more
Schoolgirl, 17, FAKED brain tumour to con pop stars and their fans out of up to £400,000 to fund private jet trips to Disneyland – as inquest reveals she died of heart failure six years later Meghan Bhari founded Believe in Magic to help terminally ill children in 2012 The charity was dissolved last week … Read more
Coronavirus spreads through air conditioning units on buses, scientists have warned after two dozen cases were linked back to a single passenger in China. Twenty-four passengers on the bus in Zhejiang Province tested positive for the virus after a single hour-and-a-half journey on January 19. Scientists believe the air conditioning unit allowed the transmission of the … Read more
When a homeless man’s story about how a stray cat saved him from heroin addiction was made into an award-winning film, he and the producer were all smiles. But now, weeks after Bob the Cat was fatally run over, owner James Bowen has had a bitter falling out with the man who immortalised him on … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of workers face redundancy because insurance giants are refusing to pay out in a £1 billion ‘coronavirus cover con’. Tens of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses are at risk of bankruptcy because of the ‘disgraceful’ and ‘immoral’ attempt to wriggle out of releasing the vital funds. This is despite them having … Read more