fraud

The UK arm of international advisory firm deVere Group has been the target of another cloning scam, with perpetrators imitating its advisers and forging business cards to dupe clients, the firm's UK chief has said today.

A gang of investment fraudsters who conned 73 people out of £700,000 have been jailed for up to six years at Southwark Crown Court.

The regulator's clamp-down on financial crime will have an effect on advisory firms who are often seen as the gate-keepers to financial services, a consultancy has said.

A former accountant for Bernard Madoff was arrested on Thursday, nearly five years after the fraudster's huge Ponzi scheme was uncovered, an FBI spokesman said.

City of London Police detectives have arrested six men as part of an investigation into a suspected ‘boiler room' operating from the Square Mile selling carbon credits.

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Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) has released new fraud intelligence highlighting the growth of a phone scam in which fraudsters are targeting individuals to deceive them into revealing personal and financial information - or make payments into the...

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is considering whether it will pay compensation to those invested through the troubled self invested personal pension (SIPP) operator HD Administrators (HDA).

Two tax consultants have been charged with fraud over their part in a £1m tax scheme which took advantage of charity reliefs.

The son of troubled overseas property company Harlequin's chairman has been disqualified from being a company director for 13 years.