Frauds

UK Finance has warned homebuyers to take steps to avoid being scammed, as the end of the stamp duty holiday looms.

Recent reports by acquiring banks have identified a surge in card testing attacks detected on merchant sites during this pandemic year. As ecommerce volumes increase and new businesses move online, it is crucial to be aware of card testing fraud, and learn how to identify and prevent it.

Statistics from the National Fraud Database reveal facility takeover fraud increased by a fifth in the first nine months of 2020

21 people have been arrested across the UK as part of an operation targeting customers of an online criminal marketplace that advertised stolen personal credentials.

A man was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for fraudulent insurance claims, which could have inflicted a potential loss of £107,594 on some of the UK’s biggest insurers.

In the past 24 hours, Action Fraud has received 120 reports of courier fraud. Victims have reported a particular tactic of being called by someone impersonating a police officer. The suspect uses the name Eric Shaw and gives over his badge number, in order to appear trustworthy to victims.

Detectives are advising the public to be on their guard following a number of fraudulent calls throughout 2020 where fraudsters have been posing as Police Officers requesting money from potential victims.

Fraud prevention organisation Cifas said that facility takeover fraud had increased by a fifth in the first nine months of 2020, with this type of fraud typically peaking at Christmas.

An elderly couple from Staffordshire have been conned out of thousands of pounds by fraudsters posing as police officers seven days before Christmas.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2020/12/21/investigation-launched-after-elderly-stafford-couple-conned-by-people-pretending-to-be-police/

A WARNING has been issued after over 100 reports of a fraud where scammers pretend to be police officers.