Alexandra Stevens, 49, of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, is facing an uncertain future after being convicted of helping her husband Paul, 70, to fraudulently claim £29,000 in handouts.

Alexander Wood, 36, of Camden, London, and accomplice Mohammed Azhar, 40, used ‘social engineering’ techniques to fool victims into thinking they were calling from their bank.

Bernie Madoff (left) reportedly enjoys his ‘special celebrity’ status behind bars and personally picked his Mexican drug runner cellmate, Ralph Griffith (inset) claims in his book.

College principal Wahida Sultana, 40, from London, was part of a gang who forged academic records needed for visa extensions and rigged language tests, Southwark Crown Court heard.

These are the first pictures of the sprawling estate in Pakistan, based on designs of Buckingham Palace, belonging to the UK fraudster dubbed ‘The General’.

David Overton, from Manchester, pretended to be a sweet sugar daddy to then-18-year-old Anna Ryan (pictured), from Bedford, and promised to treat her like a princess.

Allan Curry, 24, devised a sophisticated scheme to siphon off the money over more than two years from the Evans Halshaw Vauxhall garage where he worked in Middlesbrough.

Grant West, 25, who lived in a caravan in Minster-on-Sea, Kent, used usernames and passwords stolen from third parties to access customer accounts.

Vietnam-born Anh Nhu Nguyen claimed he lost his wife and son in the inferno and was assigned a family liaison officer before police noticed inconsistencies in his story

Helen Elcock, 48, tried to sue travel company Arriva after she watched her parked Ford Focus being struck by a bus outside her local shops in Cannock, Staffordshire.