Scams steal Â£8.4bn from taxpayer
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The UK loses five times more money to VAT cheats than any other EU country, a report claims.
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By TOM BODDEN Welsh Affairs Correspondent  BARGAIN hunters in North Wales were warned yesterday to beware of "unbelievable offers".   Scams ranging from bogus holiday clubs to dodgy sweepstakes, miracle cures to fake foreign lotteries, are aiming to catch the unwary.
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Banks may be taking cards  from reliable customers and giving them instead to riskier ones, an MP fears.
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HMRC figures it out Missing trader or carousel fraud cost Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Â£3bn in the last financial year.â¦
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A French tax official cheated the  government out of 600,000 euros ($820,000) by creating a  phantom identity as a university professor and claiming a  salary for some 15 years, the government said Monday.
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Pay up or you'll never see your data again Pond-dwelling scammers have developed a new cyber-extortion ruse.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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Police are warning people donating to the UK's tsunami relief fund to be vigilant to fraudsters trying to cash in.
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A gang of car thieves that made Â£4.5m by stealing expensive cars in violent attacks is jailed.
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Four eastern Europeans appeared in a London court yesterday charged with defrauding online banks of hundreds of thousands through an elaborate 'phishing' scam.
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Four NI banks face investigation by the Competition Commission over claims they rip off customers.
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London's Metropolitan Police return some money seized from impeached Nigerian Governor Joshua Dariye.
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Police were told about men acting suspiciously outside the Northern Bank in Belfast during the robbery in which a gang got away with Â£22m (â¬31.4m), it was revealed today.
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A large four figure cash sum is stolen after a family is held at gunpoint in County Tyrone, say police.
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Q: I have been receiving an increasing number of e-mail requests to participate in financial schemes that are clearly bogus and illegal.
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Every year the Internal Revenue Service announces the top 12 tax scams. This tax season, topping the latest Dirty Dozen are fraudulent schemes connected with the one-time telephone excise tax refund available to most taxpayers.
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More than 22 million pounds (31.48 million euros, 42.1 million dollars) was taken in this week's dramatic robbery at the Northern Bank in Belfast, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.