Neighbourhood police officers arrested a man suspected of using a stolen bank card in Tonbridge following an incident on the evening of Thursday 25 January 2024, when the victim reported…
Canterbury City Council is investigating a cyber incident and is liaising closely with the experts at the National Cyber Security Centre. The council team reports it is taking a precautionary…
Kent Police is reminding people to be alert to scammers following an attempted fraud in Broadstairs. It was reported that during the afternoon of Thursday 21 December 2023, a resident…
Detectives are reminding Thanet residents to be alert to fraudsters after a pensioner’s cash was taken by a man posing as a police officer. The Margate resident received a call…
ATM: Library image A fraudster and thief who targeted pensioners using cash machines in Maidstone and Medway is starting a prison sentence. On 17 February 2021, a pensioner used an…
A convicted fraudster from Maidstone has been jailed again after he went on to scam new victims following his release from prison. Blake Paterson was released on licence in 2022,…
Residents are reminded to be on guard against phone fraudsters following a failed attempt to scam a Tonbridge pensioner out of £4,000. Officers intercepted a parcel containing the money, after…
A fraudster who conned a woman he met on a dating app out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been jailed. Kye Hughes, 34, from Rochester met the woman…
A court hearing has been held into an alleged conspiracy to launder nearly £180,000 from victims of fraud. Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate launched an investigation…
A Ramsgate fraudster has been jailed after charging an elderly victim £50,000 for routine building and gardening work. Mark Riley cold-called at a property in Ramsgate on 8 July 2020,…
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