British soldier and father-of-three Lee John, 41, was found dead in France just days after his family was ‘duped’ by a property conman.

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More than five million Brits fell victim to fraud last year at a total cost of £9.7billion after scammers including cowboy roofers, dodgy letting agents and fake traffic wardens targeted vulnerable people.

Christopher Walsh Atkins and Christina Slater along with fellow producer Terence Potter took advantage of a scheme to support UK films, Southwark Crown Court heard.

In Britain’s biggest ever education fraud, school accounts manager Sam Kayode (pictured), from East London, spent the cash on his real wife, a second ‘wife’ and two alleged mistresses.

The Mohammed family, from Glasgow, cold-called victims posing as advisors from Visa, then hijacked the victims calls to their banks to take money from them

Up to several hundred Britons were wrongly charged by rogue firms for unsolicited texts with regulator PhonepayPlus receiving 7,462 complaints in the past two years.

James Stanley, from Gateshead, played along with the con after someone approached him claiming to be a woman from the Philippines and needing money for a ‘new phone’

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1. Uttarakhand: Air Force Choppers Mi-17 to spray water as forest fires continue to rage; 6 dead. NDRF companies assisted by expert teams and locals are conducting fire extinguishing and rescue operations in affected areas of Garhwal and Kumaon regions.