Scams

Police in Cumbria are urging the public to be vigilant of a telephone scam that requests victims purchase iTunes vouchers.

https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2018/06/08/police-warn-of-itunes-vouchers-scam/

Citizens Advice says reported cases of investment scams - including cryptocurrency, binary option investments and holiday timeshares - has doubled over the past year

https://www.insider.co.uk/news/citizens-advice-scams-financial-legal-12630721

How safe from the scammers do you think you are? Many of us are confident that we would never fall for crimes that can end up costing thousands of pounds.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16266090.Revealed__the_people_most_likely_to_be_scammed/

At the start of Scams Awareness Month, Citizens Advice reveal three quarters of us have been targeted by a scam in the past two years

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2018/06/10-of-the-latest-and-most-common-scam-threats-in-the-uk/

A conman made so much money from ripping off customers he put down a deposit for a trip to the moon, a court heard.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/967116/online-fraud-conman-virgin-Richard-Branson-moon-trip

Scams Awareness Month 2018 is taking place throughout the month June. Partnership work is key to this campaign.

https://www.tradingstandards.uk/news-policy/scams-awareness-month-2018

Last year, Action Fraud clocked 42,949 incidents of online shopping fraud, with total losses of £58m.

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2018/05/online-shopping-scams-cost-brits-58m-a-year/

Victim of sophisticated banking con reveals how she was tricked into transferring £4,000 to scammers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5755585/Victim-sophisticated-banking-scam-reveals-tricked-losing-4-000.html

Action Fraud has had more than 300 reports of fake emails, texts and calls from fraudsters pretending to be from TSB this month in the wake of the bank's IT meltdown - and a further 51 reports of TSB-related fraud where victims say they have actually lost cash.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/banking/2018/05/revealed-300-tsb-customers-report-scams-to-fraud-police

Action Fraud is warning the public about a sharp rise in fraudsters sending out fake text messages and phishing emails claiming to be from TSB.

https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/news/sharp-rise-in-fake-tsb-text-messages-and-phishing-emails-may18