Romance scams cost Brits £50m last year
City of London police is warning lovelorn people about being scammed ahead of Valentine’s Day
Fraud
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Family crime groups wreaking havoc with pension scams
Criminal investigations involving regulators, government agencies and police forces are ongoing
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Fraud centre reveals ‘shocking’ £197m losses for victims
Chameleon-like scammers are ‘adept at changing to present themselves as the genuine article’
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Former Real Madrid boss agrees deal over Spanish tax fraud
He will pay in excess of €2.18m in fines
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Two-year sentence for unauthorised UK investment firm boss
Prison term suspended with fraudster ordered to complete 300 hours of community service
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UK compensation scheme warns of potential scam
Phishing emails are luring people to part with personal information to claim large sums of money
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Eight-year jail term for investment fraudster
Carbon credit scheme scammed £2.4m from 130 victims
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Hundreds of millions lost to UK pension scams
Insolvency Service wound up 24 firms in four years, with victims losing £202m in pension contributions
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‘Fraudulent’ financial adviser jailed for eight years
He used £4.5m of his victims’ money to fund an ‘extravagant lifestyle of foreign travel, top hotels and gambling’
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Adviser cleared defrauding his mother out of £137,000
Jury finds the managing director of Cascade Wealth Management not guilty
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Goldman Sachs facing $3.3bn in fines over 1MDB fraud
Malaysia’s attorney general says Goldman misled investors and knew funds would be misappropriated
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RBC Wealth Management opens US risk prevention division
Advisers are in a ‘unique position to help mitigate the risk of financial exploitation’