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£500K recovered from wife of canoe fraudster John Darwin - Mirror Online
www.mirror.co.uk | 21 hours 45 minutes ago
CPS reveals they have now recovered a total of £501,641.39 from the assets that Mrs Darwin held as a result of the scam

One Per Cent: Meet the Yahoo Boys: Nigeria's email scammers exposed
www.newscientist.com | Feb 13, 2012
Researchers in Nigeria have managed to conduct detailed interviews with 40 of the country's infamous

RBS bankers arrested in tax fraud investigation | Business | The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk | Feb 12, 2012
HMRC says five current and former employees of Edinburgh-based bank were detained in investigation into personal financial affairs

Don’t Let Small Businesses Be Victims | PRLog
www.prlog.org | Feb 10, 2012
Don’t Let Small Businesses Be Victims. Every year, more and more small businesses are becoming victims of scammers. Know how to identify a potential scammer and what to do to prevent your business from becoming another victim. - PR11796173

Dennis M. Kelleher: First Bank Fraud, Now Political Fraud
www.huffingtonpost.com | Feb 10, 2012
It's like saying rather than drowning in a lake 50 feet deep, you get to drown in a lake that is only 30 feet deep. And, people are taking victory laps? You don't believe any of that and still think what the politicians said about punishing the banks was true?

Newsvine - Hard economic times sharpen Spaniards' sneaky side
www.newsvine.com | Feb 9, 2012
Leather seats are disappearing from cars. Precious jewels are vanishing from drawers. TVs are spirited out of homes in the dead of night.

2012 UK Fraud Predictions - bobsguide.com
www.bobsguide.com | Jan 31, 2012
Leading fraud consultancy UK Fraud has set out 10 predictions for the domestic fraud prevention market in 2012. The predictions are:

Ex-UBS trader denies fraud, faces trial - The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com |
Kweku Adoboli pleades not guilty to charges related to the loss of more than $2-billion on trades the Swiss bank says were unauthorized

Bottom Line - Facebook sues to stop 'likejacking' scammers
bottomline.msnbc.msn.com | Jan 26, 2012
Spammers have come up with a sneaky new way to distribute their message via social media.

Con Artist Starred in Sting That Cost Google Millions - WSJ.com
online.wsj.com | Jan 25, 2012
Over four months in 2009, a federal prisoner—and convicted con artist—was the lead actor in a government sting targeting Google Inc. that yielded one of the largest business forfeitures in U.S. history.