Scam news 1
Pension Scam Warning
People are urged to be extra vigilant amid a spate of reports that fraudsters are impersonating police officers. The crime, known as ‘Courier Fraud’, has seen elderly victims hand over thousands of pounds in cash after being told they must cooperate with an undercover police investigation into their bank.Read more
Scam news 2
Online Shopping Scams
The share of shopping that consumers do online has been growing for years. E-commerce sales topped $870 billion in 2021, an increase of more than 50 percent from 2019, according to retail research firm Digital Commerce 360.
Cybercriminals are keeping pace. An AARP survey of 2,012 U.S. consumers 18 and older, found that more than a third of respondents have experienced fraud when trying to buy a product through an online ad.Read more
Scam news 3
Ads on Social Media Scams
According to an analysis by a consumer group, Which?, and research charity, Demos Consulting, many scammers are on the loose on Instagram and Facebook but this time they are disguised as ads.
These two groups researched 1,000 ads on Instagram and Facebook which were looking like scams. 484 of these ads were about investments. .Read more