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Officers from Nottinghamshire Police’s Cybercrime Unit are encouraging members of the public to remain vigilant in light of a new ‘sextortion’ email scam.
https://westbridgfordwire.com/nottinghamshire-police-warn-against-sextortion-scam/
Talking of the news an eBay seller was scammed out of £54,000 when a hacker changed the payments email address on some of his listings, Tamebay reader Jim was scathing when it comes to reporting eBay scammers to the Police and in particular the Action Fraud website.
https://tamebay.com/2019/08/is-reporting-ebay-scammers-to-action-fraud-a-waste-of-time.html
The Daily Mail’s This is Money have investigated the £54,000 eBay fraud which Richard Crisp of Home Care Essentials became victim of and they too have hit an impenetrable brick wall with both eBay and PayPal passing the buck to each other when asked who is to blame.
https://tamebay.com/2019/08/daily-mail-this-is-money-investigate-54000-ebay-fraud.html
Residents in Wolverhampton are being warned not to fall victim to offers of low-cost loans or free government grants – after reports that a gang of fraudsters had been targeting the area.
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/wolverhampton/wednesfield/2019/08/13/councillor-warns-wednesfield-residents-to-be-aware-of-fraud-loans/
An increasing number of people in the region have reported receiving phone calls from scammers claiming to be calling from their bank, or police fraud investigators.
A Black Country builder who took thousands of pounds from customers then failed to finish work on their homes has been ordered to pay £10,000.
MORE than 400,000 pension savers in Yorkshire could put their retirement cash at risk to scammers, according to new figures.
Some of the UK’s major banks have been criticised for failing to sign up to a voluntary code which helps victims of authorised push payment fraud.
The biggest Amazon fraud ever discovered in the EU has been uncovered reportedly costing the company €330,000 in lost product.
A heartless conman exploited his mother's murder to fleece friends in the Arsenal community out of their life savings.
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