Billie Sol Estes, fraudster, born 10 January 1925; died 14 May 2013.
Frances Knox, 44, from Hertfordshire, has resolved to change her passwords every month after she had her Skype account maliciously taken over by fraudsters on 21 December.
In particular, the financial services industry recorded the highest loss to fraudsters at £3.6bn.
Convicted fraudster Stephen Seddon, 46, had once before tried to murder his father Robert, 68, and mother Patricia, 65, by driving into a canal with them strapped in the back seats in a faked road accident.
It is important to establish that anti-counterfeit strategies must be based on understanding the nature of the fraud and the fraudster (Spink, 2011).
Clearly, this is a family whose nobility oscillates in tandem with Britain's own triumphs – having slid down the scale from "Famous Hitler Fighter" to "Sleeping Bag Fraudster" in 70-odd years.
"I don't think it's reasonable to indict 'Wolf of Wall Street' or blame Martin Scorcese because Jho Loh, an accused fraudster of 1MDB, financed the film," he said. . "I probably wouldn't have preferred Hulu to have paid Billy, but it adds a lot to have his perspective," Wells added.
The average fraud per prosecution was £11,000, but only one in 10 fraudsters is prosecuted because most misdemeanours are too small to warrant it.
Over a two-year period, up to Christmas last year, the Metropolitan Police say 93 fraudsters operating such scams were charged, having stolen a total of £2.4m from their victims.
The British insurance industry calculates fraudsters cost it £1.6bn a year.
