Tag Result: fraud
How brokers tackle mortgage fraud: ‘There is no greater detective than a crinkly, grey haired adviser’
Falsified documents were the biggest source of mortgage fraud in 2018, a report from Cifas...
Paradigm warns of mortgage fraudsters’ tactics in ebook for brokers
Paradigm Mortgage Services has published an ebook for advisers to help them identify and p...
Estate agent jailed after pocketing deposits
An estate and lettings agent has been sentenced to more than two years in prison after com...
Convicted mortgage fraudster ordered to surrender properties worth £315k
A convicted mortgage fraudster jailed for four years has been ordered to pay back £315,00...
Principality BS manager forged letters to steal £180,000
Claire Free, 47, a senior building society boss has been jailed for forging a letter from ...
False documents biggest source of mortgage fraud
The number of mortgage frauds dropped by 18 per cent to 2,495 in 2018, a report from Cifas...
Fake mortgage adviser who stole more than £100,000 is jailed
A fake mortgage adviser has been jailed by Chelmsford Crown Court for inveigling more than...
Letting agents jailed over ‘industrial scale’ fraud
The mother and daughter behind a letting agent fraud which conned victims out of around £...
Conman pretended to be mortgage adviser to defraud nurses of £100k
A fraudster has been convicted of conning more than £100,000 from three nurses by pretend...
SFO reclaims £1.5m from Birmingham fugitive linked to £49m mortgage frauds
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has seized and sold two properties worth £1.5m that were o...