February is known as the month of romance – but lockdown rules have resulted in further isolation for singletons, leaving thousands with lonely hearts seeking love remotely. But with this desperation comes another threat: romance fraud. It has become a very lucrative industry for fraudsters, and last year victims of this type of scam were … Read more
Banks could be ordered to refund ALL fraud victims, watchdog says Payments watchdog said banks could be forced to reimburse all scam victims Despite code of conduct in 2019, less than half of money stolen being refunded Rules might include forcing banks to commit to another new code of conduct By Amelia Murray Money Mail … Read more
Banks could be forced to publish figures showing how often they pay back blameless fraud victims as new data reveals those who lose money to bank transfer scams continue to face a lottery. Publishing information about victims’ losses and how often they were reimbursed by their bank ‘would give banks a strong incentive to do … Read more
Anti-corruption expert wife, 41, is cleared of laundering proceeds of Commonwealth Secretariat lawyer husband’s £1.3million alleged fraud Melissa Khemani, 41, cleared of laundering £61k between October 2018-2019 Her husband Joshua Brien, 47, allegedly defrauded Commonwealth Secretariat He is also accused of failing to inform his new employer of reason he was sacked Brien appeared in court via … Read more
Donald Trump lawyer Bruce Castor said it would be ‘insane’ to dispute the legitimacy of the 2020 election in his impeachment defense – after the president split with his former legal team over that very subject. ‘Injecting that into a case that is already a winner would be idiotic,’ Castor said. ‘It would be insane to … Read more
Four days after the electoral college certified Joe Biden’s presidential victory, then-President Donald Trump, his legal team and several White House advisers had an election fraud meeting in the Oval Office that devolved into a shouting and swearing match. The heated confrontation took place over six hours, first as aides faced off against each other … Read more
BT on trial for £530m Italian fraud scandal: Communications giant accused of inflating revenues and concealing losses By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 25 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 25 January 2021 BT will be in the dock today as a long-awaited trial over its £530million accounting scandal begins in … Read more
Online misinformation about the presidential election plummeted after President Donald Trump was suspended from Twitter and several other social media platforms. Claims of election fraud dropped 73 percent after the ban, according to a new report from research firm Zignal Labs, from 2.5 million mentions to 688,000. The fastest and biggest decline was on Twitter, … Read more
Dutch PM Mark Rutte and his entire cabinet resigned today over a child benefits scandal in which thousands of families were wrongly accused of fraud. Rutte accepted responsibility after as many as 26,000 innocent parents were left in financial ruin after being wrongly forced to pay back tens of thousands of euros in a scandal … Read more
Serious Fraud Office drops corruption probe into British American Tobacco due to insufficient evidence after it was accused of paying bribes in east Africa The Serious Fraud Office started an investigation into British American Tobacco The probe was launched in 2017 concerning bribery allegations in Africa After three years, the SFO said there was not … Read more