Identity theft and credit card fraud are so damn common these days that it's tempting to treat it like a bureaucratic hiccup dealt with by phone calls and form filling rather than associate it with actual criminals taking your money and disrupting your life. However, the scale of the global criminal network beavering away on diddling you of your earnings and credit ratings in this tech savvy, hands-off style is evident in the scuppering......

Following the furore over widespread lackadaisical record-keeping for on duty expenses within the Met police force, a detective has been jailed for 10 months for impressively audacious abuses of the company credit card. Detective Sergeant Richard de Cadenet's level of spending suggests he wasn't entirely thinking straight or even criminally when he laid out for Mexican holidays, luxury electrical goods, a snazzy new wardrobe and £18,000 of hard cash from the hole in the......