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Unscrupulous foreign firms are using AI-generated images and false back stories to pose as family-run UK businesses to lure in shoppers.

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The court heard he used the lure of designer handbag brand Hermes as a ruse to trick people into giving him the money.

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It is also confident that with the necessary backing the attempt to lure the Solheim Cup to England would be successful.

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The lure was quick cash, but beneath their bravado was something more predatory - boys as young as their early teens had been effectively groomed into crime.

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But what may be even more important is the assumption driving this particular falsehood, which is to lure people into a “debate” about whether any immigrants should ever get health care.

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