Paul Hirst (pictured), 58, from Huddersfield, spent six hours on the phone to the scammers, who managed to persuade him to give them his bank details.
Rehfuss convinced seniors to fill out paperwork and submit DNA swabs for testing. One of the tactics used to lure seniors was a promise of free ice cream, according to the charges. The company that operates Clayton Mews, Community Realty Management, …
Rehfuss and others then took DNA swabs where the meetings took place or arranged to do it in the seniors' apartments, with no involvement of a healthcare provider or determination that the treatment was necessary, officials said when announcing the …
With the advent of internet positivism, and the canonization of Neil Tyson, Carl Sagan, et al., folks forget scientists are just people, fallible humans capable of the same drama featured on Keeping Up With The Kardashians. When pet theories are challenged by maverick science, most times successfully, things get a bit embarassing. Adam Gopnik perfectly […]
Illegal Aliens falsely claim "credible fear " to be allowed to receive asylum in the United States.
National Trading Standards says the names of vulnerable people, many of them old and living alone, are collected on so-called ‘suckers lists’ traded between fraudsters.
German auto giant Volkswagen shifted up a gear Wednesday in its plans to recall millions of cars fitted with pollution-cheating software as it boosted efforts to find the masterminds behind the scam. Following the departures of chief executive Martin Winterkorn and sales chief Christian Klingler in VW's deepest-ever crisis that broke 12 days ago, more […]
Alison Wilson, 54, plotted with her husband Ian, 53, and daughter Cheri, 35, to illegally lend money to hundreds of residents who lived on the deprived Bonnington Estate in Stockport.
The trial of a financial trader who posed as wealthy Spanish nobility with links to the Vatican in order to scam a shipping firm out of £73 million has begun in London. Luis Nobre carried out the deception on Dutch shipping firm …
A business was tricked into handing over more than £1million to a bogus caller in one of Britain’s biggest-ever telephone banking scams.