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He said anyone who had been defrauded should contact their bank before reporting it to the police and Action Fraud, the national reporting centre for fraud.

Over the course of 10 years, she defrauded cancer charity Rainbow Valley by forging the signatures of staff and rerouting cash.

Instead, she was quoted as saying by the Associated Press, he had “defrauded the state”.

As assistant U.S. attorney in California’s Central District for seven years in the 1990s, he ran a unit tasked with finding and prosecuting people who defrauded the government after the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

"Even if it’s an overpayment and you haven’t defrauded the DWP, you have to pay it back because it’s the law. They can waive it but it’s at their discretion."