Private hire driver fined hundreds of pounds for blue badge fraud
A private hire taxi driver who used a fake blue badge to park in Croydon has been fined hundreds of pounds.
A private hire taxi driver who used a fake blue badge to park in Croydon has been fined hundreds of pounds.
The council’s trading standards team is warning over-70s about phone scams after a South Croydon woman was duped out of £650 worth of iTunes vouchers.
The woman was telephoned out of the blue by a man who said […]
Croydon Council's trading standards team is warning young people aged 18-24 to be aware of how to protect themselves from online scammers after a rise in reported digital fraud cases.
Croydon Council is warning the public to be aware of a scammer who posed as one of its employees to try and con over £1,000 out of local people with learning disabilities and connected professionals.
The scam involves a […]
Bank card and investment fraud are among the most lucrative scams for those determined to part the innocent from their cash – and older people are most likely to become the victims.
The national Scams Awareness Month campaign […]
Social media is a modern phenomenon that the younger generation has grown up with and couldn’t imagine life without.
While enabling them to keep up with friends, family, celebrity gossip and the goings-on in the current reality TV […]
A letting agent – described by a judge as being “thoroughly dishonest” – has been jailed for 19 months after making off with thousands of pounds of clients’ holding deposits.
The trial of Thirugnanaselvam Damayantharan, of Demesne Road, […]
A Norbury woman who fraudulently claimed nearly £192,000 in benefits has been jailed for seven years after a Croydon Council-led prosecution.
Angel Jackson, aged 52, from Solent Court, London Road, Norbury, was sentenced on Friday after being found […]
Holders of parking permits for disabled people – blue badges – are being warned not to be taken in by companies that charge to complete online application forms.
Croydon Council is […]
A builder’s financial problems were worsened when he was fined for using a photocopy of his father’s disabled parking permit to avoid having to feed the meter while he worked in central Croydon.
Adam Mansfield, 42, of Rainham, […]