Inner London Crown Court jailed Ajay Shinjin for two and a half years for helping steal nearly $260,000 in crypto through SIM swaps. Once the victims' numbers moved, their texted security codes went to the thieves, and BT was the one that noticed.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder
- Builder 28%
- Operator
- Operator 55%
- Investor
- Investor 17%
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives30
- Confidence78
Bigger fraudulent claims pushed detected UK insurance fraud up 14% to £1.34bn
Detected UK insurance fraud rose 14% to £1.34bn in 2025 while case numbers fell 2.7%, the Association of British Insurers said. With the money concentrating in fewer, larger claims, insurers' document checks now face AI-faked accident scenes and paperwork.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence60
UK losses to hijacked email and social media accounts rose fivefold to 6.3 million pounds
Reported losses to criminals who hijack UK email and social media accounts reached 6.3 million pounds in 2025-26, up from 1.2 million, police data shows. The base is small, but fraud that borrows a person's identity gives employers a reason to review how staff log in.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives40
- Confidence55
Police risk owner signed off on US insider access to UK criminal records in 2017
A Guardian investigation surfaced the 2017 assessment for moving UK criminal records and victim statements onto Azure, with US government insiders among the 15 risks its signatory accepted. Five specialists say the risk stands.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption85
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives70
- Confidence58
Under-30s account for 62% of money-laundering arrests in five years of police FOI returns
Cardiff and UWE academics pulled five years of arrest records from 36 forces in England and Wales, where the age pattern is firm, while the warning about international students recruited as mules comes from officer interviews rather than counted cases.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives58
- Confidence55
Ninety-two percent of UK account-hack loss reports arrived after Report Fraud went live
City of London Police recorded a 417% rise in account-hack losses to £6.3m in the year to March. The arithmetic underneath it shows the average loss per victim halving as small cases got recorded for the first time.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption74
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives58
- Confidence66
Seizing 80 IPTV servers turns a £980,812 piracy case toward the people who subscribed
Milan Ibrahim drew more than six years for a £980,812 subscription business run on 80 machines in Chorley. The police kept the machines, and say they may lead to the identification of the customers who paid.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives68
- Confidence54