Consumers have been encouraged to be vigilant when shopping online after research showed fraud was rife on secondhand marketplaces, with Depop, Shpock and Preloved named…
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Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’
More than 800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a…
View More Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’Taylor Swift fans given ‘urgent warning’ as £1m lost in ticket scams
A rise in fraud cases involving Taylor Swift fans desperate to buy tickets to her sold-out UK shows has prompted Lloyds Bank to issue an…
View More Taylor Swift fans given ‘urgent warning’ as £1m lost in ticket scamsCar cloning: innocent UK motorists get fines as scams accelerate
On Wednesday, Bouchaib Moussaid’s £8,000 Kia Sportage car was all set to be sold at auction by bailiffs. The care worker, who lives in St…
View More Car cloning: innocent UK motorists get fines as scams accelerateAI will make scam emails look genuine, UK cybersecurity agency warns
Artificial intelligence will make it difficult to spot whether emails are genuine or sent by scammers and malicious actors, including messages that ask computer users…
View More AI will make scam emails look genuine, UK cybersecurity agency warnsTSB reimbursed 15 times more customers’ fraud losses than Monzo in 2022
The shocking disparity in the way the banks refund fraud victims has been laid bare in figures that show TSB refunded 94% of customer fraud…
View More TSB reimbursed 15 times more customers’ fraud losses than Monzo in 2022UK consumers lose £580m to fraudsters in first half of 2023, figures reveal
Scammers were responsible for nearly 1.4m cases of fraud in the UK during the first half of 2023 – the equivalent of one every 12…
View More UK consumers lose £580m to fraudsters in first half of 2023, figures reveal‘I felt powerless’: how a crypto scam cost a finance boss £300,000
A senior manager at a UK investment firm has told how he was conned out of his £300,000 life savings by cryptocurrency scammers. Matthew Thomas*…
View More ‘I felt powerless’: how a crypto scam cost a finance boss £300,000What to do when you think you have been scammed
Act quickly Martyn James, a consumer rights expert, says most scams involve getting you to transfer money directly or obtaining enough personal information to access…
View More What to do when you think you have been scammedScams: six of the most common tricks – and how to avoid them
Fake retailer websites Where there’s a news story, there’s a fraud, and in August it was headlines saying that Wilko had gone into administration and…
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