Scams

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

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

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/

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

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/

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

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

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/

Fraudsters are conning older people out of thousands of pounds by asking them to pay off a non-existent tax debt in iTunes vouchers.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fraudsters-targeting-older-people-itunes-tax-scam-105800792.html

Crooks are using all sorts of tricks to not only scare users but also to try and ‘lock’ their browsers

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/2018/02/tech-support-scammers-find-new-way-jam-google-chrome/