Christopher Browne ~ consumer articles
'Criminals pick up the names, ages and home towns of tsunami victims
from the TV to open bank accounts and get credit-card numbers'
The Times
The Times
Christopher Browne won the 2006 BIBA 'Consumer Broadsheet Journalist of the Year' prize. He writes regularly for the Observer on the iniquities of insurance fraud and credit card crimes.
Read Christopher's award-winning entry about the fraudsters who wear pink ribbons (Observer 'Cash'), the crooks who duped the tsunami victims (The Times) and the phones that make you groan (Observer 'Cash').
- Tsunami victims' identities are under threat from gangs
- Pink ribbon tied around an old car aerial? Watch out
- Pay as you groan
- Caught speeding? Don't panic just talk about it
- The accidental tourists
- A homecoming nightmare you just wouldn't bank on
- Goodbye to all this: Britons show they are prepared to get up and go
- Single, carless and carefree? Join the club
- Green-fingered thieves lead owners up the garden path
- Beware of the quick-fix house salesman
- Are you sure you've got it covered?
- Got an identity crisis? Join the queue
- Wily phishers haul in more victims
- Online spectacles are not just an optical illusion
- The yowl and the pussycat
- Beware the wily phisher
- Hurricane, fire or flood? Send for the over-seventies
