New consumer campaign to tackle rise of pension scams
With the Government still dawdling over enforcing a ban on pension cold calling, UK regulators have joined forces to launch…
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Line blocking trial halts 99% of unwanted phone calls
A pilot project which saw thousands of call blocking devices installed in the homes of vulnerable and elderly people has…
Jailed data theft copper forced to pay back £300,000
A bent police officer, who was jailed in October 2017 for selling car crash victims’ data to claims management firms…
Top brands caught with trousers down on email security
The vast majority of the UK’s top 50 most valuable brands are leaving their customers wide open to email fraud…
Rogue chief jailed for double embezzlement of £136,000
A former charity chief who pleaded guilty to embezzlement and then, while on bail, went on to defraud a digital…
Bogus marketing consultant sent to prison for VAT scam
A company director, who tried to blag more than £140,000 in VAT repayments from HMRC by setting up umpteen marketing…
Adult site age checks could trigger mass porn pull-out
Adult entertainment sites such as Pornhub and Xhamster could see their web traffic go decidedly limp after the introduction of…
Fraud busting bank staff save customers more than £9m
An army of bank cashiers who joined the war against so-called “doorstep fraudsters”, who con pensioners out of their cash…
Telephone fraud gang banged up for a total of 33 years
A gang of tele-fraudsters who conned vulnerable people out of tens of thousands of pounds by posing as police officers…
Year Ahead: Time to protect your brand from ID fraud
These days no one is safe from fraud. Even charities are a target with the third sector losing an estimated…