Parents and children were alerted today to a Facebook scam involving fake modelling agencies. Leicestershire Police said the scam, using a number of social networking sites, appears to involve the fake agencies encouraging children to pose in their underwear. Read Article
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FOREIGN sex gangs are using Birmingham as a base to pimp children as young as 12. Child protection officers are focusing their efforts on beating the sick pervert rings in towns throughout the north. Asian gangs are believed to be heavily involved. In Leicester, police have become aware of an internet scam which involves non [...]
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Members of a smuggling ring which helped the Italian Mafia to flood Britain with black market cigarettes from a warehouse in Yorkshire were jailed for more than 30 years yesterday. The gang, which included men from Doncaster and Barnsley, teamed up with a notorious crime family to hide contraband tobacco in shipments of pickled vegetables, [...]
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ONE in four people has fallen victim to credit card fraud across Britain, with Edinburgh and Glasgow both hotspots for the crime. Experts are growing increasingly concerned about the sophisticated techniques used by fraud gangs, with card crime costing the UK £440 million a year and a third of victims not even realising they have [...]
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