A man acting suspiciously has been sighted on multiple occasions in a road where an attempted credit card fraud involving mail interception has taken place (Picture: Josh Layton) After a merry-go-round of trying to report a fraud using my stolen identity to different agencies, only one option was left. …
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Zhimin Qian fleeced 128,000 people out of money (Picture: Metropolitan Police/Metro) The mastermind behind a multibillion-pound bitcoin fraud operation was finally snared after a police raid on a mansion in leafy Hampstead. Today, Zhimin Qian was jailed for 11 years and eight months after masterminding a scam which led UK police …
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Brahim Kaddour-Cherif and William ‘Billy’ Smith were both accidentally released over the past two weeks Three prisoners who were mistakenly released are still at large, the Justice Secretary has confirmed, with one free since August last year. David Lammy set out the latest statistics on accidental releases as the government …
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Think twice if you get a pack of these in your pumpkin basket (Picture: Thames Valley Police) If you spot a bag of sweets like this in your Halloween haul, it’s best not to let your kids tuck in. Otherwise, you risk the plot of a thousand films as they …
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Nathan Nethercot, 33, who lives in York, is due to go on holiday with his two-year-old son Stephen in June (Picture: Duncan Lomax) A dad’s holiday plans could be in jeopardy because he says his two-year-old son’s passport has been stolen. Nathan Nethercot, 33, who lives in York with his …
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Metro reporter Luke Alsford with some of the lost post that has now been handed back to Royal Mail (Picture: UKNIP) At least a thousand undelivered letters and packages have been discovered dumped in a bin in East London. A postal worker is believed to have left around 1,000 items …
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