British police investigate 'cash-for-citizenship' scam
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British police are investigating an alleged scam where conmen may have helped hundreds of migrants cheat some of the requirements for British citizenship, a newspaper reported in an early edition.
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UK.gov's own facebook The Passport Office has stopped 600 fraudulent passport applications using a facial recognition system it rolled out as a pilot across its fraud units last year.â¦
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British police said on Friday they had  detained a man who claimed to have sent one of a series of  letter bombs to hit the country in past weeks but added that  they continue to investigate a number of other leads.
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By MARK SMITH  ASCAM operation believed to be based in Africa is sending out e- mails in the name of a Halifax Bank of Scotland board member in an attempt to persuade recipients to take part in a GBP30m "business transaction".
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At least three British couples are among scores of would-be parents who are under investigation for allegedly buying babies from Romania.
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An Italian man and a Portuguese woman arrested in Spain for allegedly trying to extort money from the parents of missing British four-year-old Madeleine McCann were questioned Friday, police told AFP.
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Police are investigating the possibility that the van used in the Northern Bank raid may have been stolen in Wales.
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Letters about a phony Spanish sweepstakes are being sent to Rockdale County residents, and police warn it's an identity theft scam.
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Information on individuals has been collected in a scam using e-greetings that appear to come from a secret admirer.
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German police have arrested 10 people  suspected of being involved in an international Internet scam  which could have cost victims hundreds of thousands of euros,  the Federal Police Office said on Thursday.
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Police forces across Britain are being urged to reveal how much money is being paid to informers.
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Why settle for just emptying an online bank account? Scammers conned both a mortgage firm and a bank to hit an IT director for Â£60,000. UK police are hunting the gang responsible for the scam, and at least nine others like it, that are estimated to have netted ID fraudsters hundreds of thousands of pounds, The Times reports.â¦
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Combined teams of UK and German customs officers have swooped on a cross-border VAT fraud worth Â£116m.
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People smuggling gangs are reportedly posing as recruiters for supermarket giant Tesco in Poland to lure young men and women to Britain, stealing hundreds of pounds (euros/dollars) from them before leaving them stranded.
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A Romanian foreign exchange student was arrested after police found him sending large sums of money overseas.
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c/o New Scotland Yard, Lagos, 419 Nigerian scammers have launched a fake London Metropolitan Police website, which includes a fake anti-terrorist hotline number.â¦
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Identity fraud a hash About Â£13bn of fraud was committed in the UK in 2005, but the figure could be on the conservative side, a report commissioned by the Association of Chief Police Officers said today.â¦