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A mother who faked ovarian cancer to con more than £52,000 from generous well-wishers to fund her lavish lifestyle was today jailed for two years and nine months. Nicole Elkabbas, 42, claimed she needed to pay for treatment and set up a charitable GoFundMe website before transferring donations into her own bank account. But she … Read more
Mother, 42, is jailed after faking ovarian cancer to con the public out of £45,000 in donations to fund trips to Barcelona and Rome, gambling, and a £3,600 luxury box at a football game By Rory Tingle For Mailonline Published: 16:25 GMT, 10 February 2021 | Updated: 16:28 GMT, 10 February 2021 A woman who … 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
Floyd Mayweather brands Conor McGregor ‘Con Artist McLoser’ insisting ‘that bum will never be me or be on my level’ and blasts ‘racist’ critics in explosive rant on Instagram By Sam Blitz For Mailonline Published: 10:20 GMT, 24 January 2021 | Updated: 12:13 GMT, 24 January 2021 Floyd Mayweather has slammed Conor McGregor for being … Read more
Fern Britton asked her fans if COVID-19 was a ‘con to control the population’ in a Twitter debate on Sunday. The presenter, 64, said she believes that ‘COVID is a real and dangerous virus’ as she encouraged her followers to share pandemic conspiracy theories, days before England went into a third national lockdown amid spiralling … 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
Fraudster, 29, who faked terminal cancer to con friends into funding £8,500 dream wedding faces jail Toni Standen from Liverpool, told friends she had developed cancer in her leg Her friends rallied round and raised £8,500 to help pay for her dream wedding But they reportedly became suspicious of her and later confronted over claims … Read more
Last summer I was tricked into transferring my life savings to criminals posing as cryptocurrency brokers. My friends had told me that lots of people were investing in Bitcoin and doing very well, so I found an online firm claiming to offer Bitcoin and entered my details. I was then contacted by a number of … Read more
Just over a third of the total amount lost to scams where people were tricked into transferring money to a fraudster was returned to customers in the first half of 2020, according to figures from a trade association. A total of £207.8million was lost to authorised push payment (APP) scams between January and June 2020, … Read more