Scammers are cold-calling people asking for their bank details to receive the government’s £150 energy rebate, councils have warned. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the rebate for homes in council tax bands A to D in February […]
Scammers are continuing to target WhatsApp users and hijack their accounts, by posing as a friend and asking for SMS security codes. The scam has existed for years but has continued to catch people out, […]
Scammers are sending 18 million hoax emails about Covid-19 to Gmail users every day, according to Google. The tech giant says the pandemic has led to an explosion of phishing attacks in which criminals try to trick […]
New protection for individuals tricked into transferring money to fraudsters has now taken effect – but not all banks are signed up to the scheme. Some 84,000 bank customers lost money – sometimes tens of […]
More than £500m was stolen from customers of British banks in the first half of 2018, figures have shown. Industry group UK Finance said £145m of that was due to authorised push payment (APP) scams, […]
Most scammers ask people to wire them money, and anyone who fell victim to their scheme may be entitled to part of $586 million. The Federal Trade Commission has accused Western Union of “looking the […]
Seventy-two-year-old Barry Fox is one of hundreds of people saved from scams after bank staff stopped him spending £10,000 on a fictitious Rolls-Royce. The retired lorry driver went into his Barclays branch intending to withdraw […]
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