Ravinder Singh, pictured, of Whitefield, Greater Manchester, helped forge visa applications for Indian migrants wanting to remain in Britain, charging up to £4,000-a-head for the service.

Kris Lyndsay, from St Austell in Cornwall, posed as a family man struggling to overcome the loss of his wife and daughter in a car crash when he met his victims via online dating websites.

Teesside Crown Court heard Lee Morris, 36, used the Facebook page of counterfeit goods trader Chantelle Beech, 46, to advertise the scheme to desperate borrowers.

A fraudster failed to make a clean getaway after doing a runner from a South Tyneside guest house – thanks to DNA on a toothbrush. Michael Robson checked in at the Forest Guest House, in Ocean Road, South Shields, under a false name and claimed his …

But police investigating the offence found a toothbrush that he used in his room, which had traces of his DNA. The 35-year-oldadmitted charges of making off without payment and theft in connection with the offences at Forest Guest House, from Sunday …

Susan Tollefsen, of Romford, Essex, was duped into handing over the money for an investment she thought would provide for her child’s future. She was

Angela Poole was jailed for four years at Derby Crown Court, after she helped herself to Government money to fund a lavish lifestyle travelling the world with her business partner and lover George Taylor.

I’ve never sold an iPhone in my life – I don’t even own one. But now the seller claims that since the phone never arrived they’d like me to reimburse them – to the tune of £650!

Mother-of-two Sarah Cawthorne, 32, of Sedgley, promised hundreds of couples celebrity-style receptions but instead conned them out of £30,000 to fund her gambling addiction.

Jean Claude Happi Siewe, who is currently serving time at HMP Nottingham, was due to be kicked out of the country last July but reportedly insisted he was unfit to fly because of haemorrhoids.