A man who used a letter from the UK Border Agency to create a false identity and claim £349,000 in benefits has been jailed for fraud. The Crown Prosecution Service said Hossein Ali Najafi received a letter to Hussein Ali Nagrafi in 2010.No checks on accuracy before they pay these huge sums out, then? Clearly not. It's only taxpayer's money, after all....
Prosecutors said his claims for employment support allowance, disability living allowance, personal independence payment and housing and council tax benefits included stating that he had extensive physical disabilities, "which surveillance disproved".I wonder what prompted the surveillance? And why there's no mention of asset recovery?
He was also found to have 26 bank accounts in his two identities./facepalm
H/T: Ian J via email
Male genital mutilation required, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteW. C. Fields had something to say about tools and their money.
ReplyDeleteThose KYC (Know Your Customer) checks the banks carry out to prevent fraud obviously work well.
ReplyDeleteCall me a cynic, but ...
ReplyDeleteI wonder at the (original) nationality, culture and religion of ... the administrator who processed the claim at The Border Agency. It couldn't be that they ... hailed from a similar/allied or the same one as the beneficiary (nah, that would/could 'never' happen, and it's purely coincidental that almost all these fraudulent claims happen to include 'ethnics', on both sides of the 'errors'. Right?)
"Male genital mutilation required, perhaps?"
ReplyDeleteI have two housebricks somewhere...
"Those KYC (Know Your Customer) checks the banks carry out to prevent fraud obviously work well."
They just inconvenience honest people!
"It couldn't be that they ... hailed from a similar/allied or the same one as the beneficiary (nah, that would/could 'never' happen, and it's purely coincidental that almost all these fraudulent claims happen to include 'ethnics', on both sides of the 'errors'. Right?)"
Of course! Who could doubt otherwise?