A lonely hearts conman from Eccles dupes four besotted women out of up to £100,000 after posing as a Royal Marine commando nicknamed ‘Charismatic Brit’ on the dating website Match.com

Manchester is no longer the crash for cash capital of the UK, according to new figures released today by the UK’s largest insurer.

A ‘sexually confused’ fraudster who stole more than £60,000 from his Wythenshawe employers has been sentenced to three years in prison.

A washed-up ex-professional footballer, who had trials at Manchester United and City, masqueraded as a Premier League star to maintain his celebrity life but is now facing a ‘substantial’ stretch in jail for fraud.

A flight attendant who led a tax evasion gang that smuggled £180,000-worth of cigarettes through airports has been jailed for 21 months.

Leader of the criminal trio, Vasile Gheorghe and his two fellow Romanian accomplices Valentin Babtan and Andreea Necula, broke EU Border Control laws by crafting forged Romanian and Italian identity cards and driving licences

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A Bury unemployed welfare claimant nicknamed ‘Mr Bullshit’ scrounged an extra £100,000 from the taxpayer – by posing as a wheeler-dealer businessman.

A Manchester online trader nicknamed the ‘Woolf of e-Wall Street’ after he made £1.4million selling CDs and DVDs on eBay has been jailed for two years for refusing to pay tax on his global internet empire.

Residents at risk as Manchester is deemed the country’s sixth-worst city for identity fraud following an Experian study

Ahmed Salim Khezri was handed a six-year prison sentence in April along with the rest of the organised gang he was a part of after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers smashed their £28million cigarette smuggling conspiracy.