One had '188 kids', another blew SEVEN MILLION - the most conniving fraudsters
Fraud can cause untold damage to people's lives - not only from the loss of money but also the betrayal of trust.
They got away with the brazen scheme until suspicions were aroused by the HMRC. The tax office spotted that the same two telephone numbers were repeatedly calling the tax credits claims call centre in connection with seemingly unrelated claims and a dedicated DWP investigation was launched. All the fraudulent claims advanced by Ali Bana Mohamed were made on the basis that the adult was looking after the named children and was entitled to child benefit and tax credits.
She realised she had not been paid in October so she contacted the pay department and continued to claim that she had not received the pay for September and they sent another further payment of £1,598.82. Wilson, of Ashton-in-Makerfield near Wigan , was sentenced to a 16-week curfew from 7pm to 7am. She will also have to complete 20 rehabilitation days and was ordered to pay £180 in costs and a victim surcharge.Serial conman Mason Crozier taunted his victims by admitting 'I'm a grafter' after stealing cars and vans worth almost £50,000.
After stealing £50 of diesel from a petrol station in Northenden by persuading staff he would pay via bank transfer Crozier threatened the owner by saying he would get a 'load of kids' to go round and strip the shelves. Gwen Henshaw, prosecuting, said the majority of Crozier's victims had advertised their vehicles for sale on either Facebook or Gumtree.
However, he repeatedly came up with excuses, and his investors were left significantly out of pocket, Manchester Crown Court heard. Minshull Street Crown Court heard Newton began transferring money from the company accounts, disguising a string of payments to her own bank account as going to payees and contractors. Between September 8, 2015, and 16 August, 2020, she spent a total of £55,309.23 from the company.
It happened between November 2020 and January 2021, when Stringer was one of four members of staff supposed to be looking after Mrs Blackham at a Stockport care home. The judge also warned Stringer, of Woodstock Crescent, Woodley, Stockport, that a six-month prison sentence would be imposed if she defaulted on the payments.Financial controller James Hall was described by his boss as a ‘great asset to the company’ and was ‘trusted implicitly ’. However, his devious offending was laid bare when he transferred himself £6.
His fraud was uncovered during an accounting audit in March 2015. When confronted, Hall said that he had taken the money and gambled it on the FTSE 100 to ‘secure the financial security of his wife and children’ but that he had ‘very little left’.
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