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Fraud is staging a come back in the channel as crims gamble on the desperation of some fretful business owners in the harsh economic climate. Stats from credit reference agency Graydon UK reveal a massive spike in fraud attempts, up 130 per cent for the first five months of 2011 to 214 cases, with company hijacking and cloned …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    Of course it will ...

    ... just like night follows day follows night ...

    People are showing their working skills but in ways of the unemployed, underemployed. (Lulz anyone? Could 17 - 19 year olds really, really, really do such harm? Or are they merely the donkeys in the front row?)

    Anyway solutions to huge fiscal problems paying scant regard to social consequences by both Whitehall and Parliament just seems far too sherbetty and sherbet like a solution making for a gross non-solution or even grosser still anti-solution.

    What gets me is that the Tories claim to be the Party for commerce and work but always seem to hit the same and hit it hard.

    Then preach about the holiness of work by priests of millionairist born into family wealth coasting easily on interests returned whether workshy or no.

    No. Present policy = denial of working ethic.

    On the other hand who a wage slave would be?

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    Just a follow on ...

    The last time Tories were in power:

    - it started with loadsamoney (usually pronounced loads ah mon-eye)

    - it ended with back to basics (usually pronounced: skint with even middle class retirees taking jobs in local supermarket)

    - in-between the two end points was quite a large (huge?) crime wave.

    I wonder if there is a connection?

    And if so, could defence of the realm alarm be pulled at the way the Tories attack the realm?

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