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Daters who strike up online relationships between Christmas and Valentines Day tend to be the most susceptible to romance fraud, with a spike of 901 reports recorded by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) in March 2021.  Despite a peak of romance fraud reports and losses of £8.7 million reported in March, the financial spike […]

Could you recognise a cloned company scam? The National Economic Crime Centre is targeting boomers in the run up to Christmas after latest figures from Action Fraud show more than £36 million has been lost to investment fraud via cloned company scams this year. Warnings on how to spot and report cloned company investment scams […]

Data from Action Fraud reveals that £1.6m of the public’s money was lost to online charity fraud over the past year. The fraud captured by this data includes asks for donations for non-existent charities and the fraudulent collection of funds from genuine charities. Action Fraud’s data shows that the £1.6m loss to fraud is up […]

New data from Action Fraud, the national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime, reveals a new emerging threat where victims are being targeted on WhatsApp by criminals pretending to be someone they know. The scam has been reported to Action Fraud 25 times between August and October 2021 and has cost users a total of £48,356. […]

New data from Action Fraud, the national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime, reveals that 28,049 shoppers were conned out of their money when shopping online over the Christmas period last year – an increase of almost two thirds (61 per cent) when compared to the same period in the previous year. Ahead of Black Friday […]