• Moped fraudsters seek capital gains
    • 22/06/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Crash-for-cash scam hits the capital Drivers are being warned of a widespread network of crash for cash fraudsters on mopeds who are thought to have attempted £27m worth of bogus claims already. A multi-agency investigation led by the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB), City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud [...]
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  • £34,000 confiscated from insurer conman
    • 15/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The Old Bailey has ordered £34,000 to be confiscated from a ‘crash for cash’ conman who obtained it from sham insurance claims made after he deliberately caused a collision on a Dorchester A-road. He was also ordered to pay court cost of £7,653.00. Judge Moss said that Mark Smith, aged 45, of Moat House Way [...]
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  • ‘Crash for cash’ scam uncovered
    • 31/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A couple from Manchester who made up a car crash and then encouraged family and friends to falsely claim they were involved in the crash, in an effort to get tens of thousands of pounds in insurance payments, have been jailed for a total of three years. Dale Bowers and Michelle Culff were sentenced alongside six [...]
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  • Van crash conman jailed
    • 15/06/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A prolific conman who made up multiple van crashes to make more than £33,000 from fraudulent insurance claims and then went on the run to evade justice has been jailed for three years and five months. Abdul Qadeer Qadri plotted diagrams of ‘accidents’ in a notebook which was uncovered by detectives from the [...]
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  • IFED gets court result
    • 01/06/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Car crash personal injury fraudster jailed A fraudster who falsely claimed a car crash left him seriously injured to get a £1,700 up-front payment from a solicitor firm was jailed for 6 months and ordered to repay his victim £500 at Preston Crown Court on Friday 29 May. Imran Shah, aged 39, of Earl Street in [...]
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  • Insurance insider investigation sees three arrested
    • 01/05/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    An Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) investigation into the suspected fraudulent sale of an insurer’s confidential customer information has seen three people arrested across Bournemouth and Poole. The City of London Police unit took action after LV= referred suspicions that, between January and [...]
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  • Insurance website corrupter sentenced
    • 20/04/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A Liverpool man who manipulated an insurer’s website to get £10,000 worth of car insurance for just £10 has been sentenced. Callum Mullen had previously been found guilty of two counts of fraud by false representation at Liverpool Crown Court, following an investigation by the City of London Police’s [...]
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  • Car insurance fraudster sentenced
    • 10/04/2015
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    A Liverpool man who manipulated an insurer’s website to get £10,000 worth of car insurance for just £10 has been sentenced. Callum Mullen had previously been found guilty of two counts of fraud by false representation at Liverpool Crown Court, following an investigation by the City of London Police’s [...]
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