A woman stole more than $400,000 from a prominent Auckland couple who say she used it to fund a lavish lifestyle.

A couple ripped off family members in a fraud involving fake emails from billionaire Graeme Hart, gift bags of gold and confidential million-dollar deals, a court heard.

The Serious Fraud Office will not prosecute anyone over the collapse of Hanover Finance because ... well, it's too hard.

A Serious Fraud Office investigation has found evidence inconsistent with former Allied Farmers chief executive Rob Alloway's complaint over the conduct of Hanover Finance, a source says.

Mark Hotchin has been keeping his head down. These days, he's a stay-at-home family man who enjoys a game of tennis and swimming.

If shopping for a living sounds tempting, don't be taken in by an email claiming to be from "Mark Powell", who promises mystery shoppers no less than $550 a job. This is likely an attempt at identity theft.

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An advocacy group for the elderly is warning pensioners of a potential scam involving personalised letters.

Former Hanover director Mark Hotchin has gone to court seeking some reimbursement for the millions of dollars he paid towards the construction of an Auckland mansion.

A life ban for a lawyer accused of stealing $3 million from clients was "the only appropriate penalty", the Law Society says.

The Serious Fraud Office says it will not be making any prosecutions around the collapse of Hanover Finance.

The Serious Fraud Office is expected to make an announcement regarding Hanover Finance early this week.

Card fraud is now big business. The victim may be in New Zealand; an offender may well be in Russia, Germany or Taiwan."Cash, they told us, was old hat. Paper money was an anachronism from another era, an idea whose time had passed.

After a week-long holiday relaxing in the Far North, Chloe Johnson panics when she tries to buy skincare products online and discovers the card is missing from its usual home inside her wallet.

Banks and police are trying to stay ahead of wily credit card fraudsters - but as long as banks mail pre-activated cards, the problem will persist.

A highly manipulative fraudster who conned a former boyfriend out of $80,000, wrecking his business and "destroying his life", has been jailed for four years.

Two jailed Capital+Merchant directors have failed in their "strawman" bid to take their case to the Supreme Court.

Five Star group founder Neill Williams has been jailed for 3 years seven months for misleading investors.

When Five Star finance company boss Neill Williams is sentenced in court today, it will be just the latest stage in a series of misadventures, reports Hamish Fletcher.

A flamboyant New Zealander who posed as a Tahitian prince while he defrauded the Queensland government of A$16.6 million ($20 million) is appealing against his 14-year prison sentence.

New Zealand's biggest white-collar fraud trial has been delayed a month and won't start until next March.

The couple alleged to be at the centre of a $375,000 benefit scam can be named for the first time.

A globetrotting conman who came to New Zealand on a purported $69 million property spending spree will spend the next 14 years in prison in the United Kingdom.

It wasn't just Xtra emails being hit by scammers this week.

A couple alleged to have ripped off taxpayers for $375,000 in Work and Income payments have been allowed to keep their names secret for now.

Robert Whale expressed relief yesterday when he was acquitted in a Serious Fraud Office case, but the former Dominion Finance director still has to return to the High Court in June for separate Financial Markets Authority proceedings.