Scams

  • 18 Mar 2018 7:48 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Statistics released in a report by the #DateSafe working group show an average of 10 reports about dating scams every single day

    https://www.cybersafewarwickshire.com/brits-lose--41million-to-dating-scams-in-2017

  • 11 Mar 2018 10:14 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Hoards of scam letters are being seized before reaching the letterboxes of vulnerable potential victims, according to Royal Mail.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43289354#

  • 04 Mar 2018 9:26 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The 40-year-old, from Stourbridge, West Midlands, had earlier admitted five charges related to fraudulent trading.


    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-43197123

  • 04 Mar 2018 9:25 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Phantom debt schemes vary wildly, but generally involve the attempted collection of debt that either doesn’t exist, has already been discharged or has been artificially (and illegally) inflated.

    http://www.acfe.com/fraud-examiner.aspx?id=4295000965

  • 04 Mar 2018 9:25 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A woman fraudulently posing as a Grenfell Tower survivor filled a hotel room “to bursting” with donations meant for real victims, a court has heard.


    https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2018/02/28/grenfell-fraud-accused-filled-hotel-room-with-donated-clothes/

  • 25 Feb 2018 10:47 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Some of Britain's biggest fraudsters have revealed how it takes less than two minutes to scam victims into sharing their bank account details over the phone - using an app that's illegal to use in the UK.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5409557/Britains-fraudsters-reveal-hack-accounts.html#ixzz57pnLA6Lr

  • 25 Feb 2018 10:46 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    As part of the Tele’s Safe as Houses campaign, Detective Inspector Iain McPhail, of the economic and financial investigation unit, has outlined the tricks crooks use to mine bank accounts.

    https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/safe-houses-top-anti-fraud-cop-warning-750k-lost-phone-scams/

  • 25 Feb 2018 10:46 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Fraudsters are continually embracing new technology and changing their methods in order to get at your hard-earned cash and data.


    https://www.lovemoney.com/news/71657/scam-fraud-spoofing-twitter-clone-green-padlock-gift-card-fines

  • 19 Feb 2018 4:30 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis has said he's "sickened" by a new scam which tries to trick victims using his name and profile picture on Facebook Messenger.


    https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/site/2018/02/martin-lewis-warns-about-scam-facebook-private-messages-pretending-to-come-from-him


  • 19 Feb 2018 4:29 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Tricksters are at it again on WhatsApp, this time they're peddling a scam giveaway of 3,000 Adidas shoes and a free Samsung phone

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5539279/whatsapp-scam-adidas-trainers/

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