Scams

Fraudsters are sending fake emails and SMS messages promising tax rebates in order to trick people into disclosing their bank account and personal details, or send them money.

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2018/05/fraudsters-promise-tax-rebates-in-latest-scam/

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

Toolkit developed for Citizens Advice and is intended to aid anyone that wishes to make evidence based decisions on how to communicate to the public about any type of scam – from doorstep scams to mail scams.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/Global/CitizensAdvice/campaigns/SAM18/Citizens%20Advice%20Scams%20Awareness%20toolkit2018B.pdf

Help spread the message that scams are crimes that can happen to anyone and we don’t need to be embarrassed if we fall victim to them.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/sam18/

It follows recent reports where victims have been conned out of thousands pounds, in some cases by fraudsters pretending to be police officers.

https://www.strayfm.com/news/local-news/2569841/five-ways-to-spot-a-fraudulent-phone-call/

A fraud victim has been scammed out of almost £50,000 by someone purporting to be an internet broadband provider, according to the PSNI.

http://www.itv.com/news/utv/2018-05-01/fraud-victim-scammed-out-of-nearly-50k/

The offender said the victim needed to pay a £1000 deposit for scaffolding before the work could begin and that this was needed straight away as the building supplies store was due to close.

https://www.punchline-gloucester.com/articles/aanews/police-hunt-bogus-builders-after-fraud

A North Sea operator and an Aberdeen-based engineering firm have reported fraudulent recruitment emails going out in their names.

https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/north-sea/170735/nexen-cnooc-and-sparrows-warn-of-recruitment-fraud/

EBay has been accused of failing to protect users from scams and dodging responsibility for the number of fake listings it allows to be posted on its website. Shopping scams of all kinds are rife online

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/ebay-accused-failing-stop-scams-another-buyer-loses-1500/

Action Fraud, the National Fraud and Cyber Crime Reporting Centre, has received several reports indicating sellers of items on online marketplace websites are falling victim to fraud by bogus buyers.

http://www.haslemereherald.com/article.cfm?id=126583&headline=Don%E2%80%99t%20fall%20fall%20to%20bogus%20sellers§ionIs=news&searchyear=2018