Articles tagged with "Fraud"

05.06.24

Big Tech

Doctored footage and hijacked accounts: anatomy of a deepfake scam network

AI-edited videos of Starmer and Sunak evaded social media rules and cheated people out of money

07.03.24

What is a deepfake – and how are they being used by scammers?

AI-generated imitations come in different forms and are increasingly hard to tell apart from the real thing

18.02.24

The Enablers

HMRC fraud team’s civil inquiries fall by half over five years

Number of cases formally opened also declines by a quarter

03.11.23

Local Power

Bankruptcies will cost Thurrock £50m

The figures are a further blow to Thurrock residents, who face years of tax rises and deep cuts to services as town hall bosses seek to balance the books

30.09.23

The Enablers

Just 11 ‘wealthy’ people prosecuted for tax fraud last year

Critics say the figure suggests HMRC is doing too little to punish rich tax cheats at a time when millions of Britons are struggling to make ends meet

03.08.23

Local Power

‘Where’s the justice?’: local anger at Thurrock's ruinous deals

Residents left to pick up the bill after disastrous investment policy leaves council with £500m black hole

19.04.21

Local Power

High court judge questions integrity of businessman behind multi-million pound council deals

More questions for Thurrock council after judge cites "unsatisfactory" evidence from controversial businessman to whom it gave £420m

17.10.20

Local Power

Fraud allegations call £400m council investments into question

Rockfire Capital, the company at the centre of the Bureau’s investigation into Thurrock council’s investment spree, has gone into voluntary liquidation just as another business owned by the same man f...

Doctored footage and hijacked accounts: anatomy of a deepfake scam network

What is a deepfake – and how are they being used by scammers?

HMRC fraud team’s civil inquiries fall by half over five years

Bankruptcies will cost Thurrock £50m

Just 11 ‘wealthy’ people prosecuted for tax fraud last year

‘Where’s the justice?’: local anger at Thurrock's ruinous deals

High court judge questions integrity of businessman behind multi-million pound council deals

Fraud allegations call £400m council investments into question

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