.......by unscrupulous businesses and fraudsters

• Numbers beginning with 09, 087, 070 and 118 are charge premium rates
• Heart Communications is the latest firm to be punished for misleading callers
• It has been fined £165,000 by the Phone-paid Services Authority

Millions of people are making calls...

Millions lost to cash transfer trick

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 22nd June 2015 11:59.

*Some £23.6m has been lost in a year to a phone scam that encourages people to put money into a fraudster's account.* The con is the most widespread...

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Investigators suspect fraudster still targeting elderly for scams

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 25th May 2015 06:46.

*......but, incredibly, say they can't afford to prosecute after savage cuts?* This is the fraudster that trading standards officials suspect...

New 'number spoofing' scam nets millions for fraudsters

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 30th October 2014 10:29.

*A new phone scam - known as number spoofing - is netting millions of pounds for fraudsters, consumers are being warned.* Financial Fraud Action...

Repeat fraudster going by the name 'Simon Fraser' swipes £80k from accountants

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 23rd August 2014 10:13.

*in another case of NatWest business account fraud* * *Harrow-based accountants targeted by phone fraudster* * *Duped them...

Romanian fraudster used secret pinhole camera to skim 9,000 PIN numbers

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 28th November 2012 12:57.

*worth £3MILLION from single cash machine* * Police believe Leonid Rotaru was part of a well-organised criminal gang *...

Ok, just got off the phone, and cant say I am too happy.

Couple weeks ago, got email off Paypal saying account suspended. Try to log in and cant. Reset password and find someone has addwed an address (in America) and attempted to transfer money from my bank account to paypal - paypal...

FSA contacts 77,000 people to warn them they are the target of financial fraudsters

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 24th April 2012 17:53.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is in the process of contacting 76,732 people to warn them they are potential targets...

Hi Peeps,

sorry i have taken so long to come back, i have been reading the forum and trying to it my head round it all. And also deal with PTSD, anxiety/panic attacks.

I got my Card around 2008 as a backup for a holiday in Portugal (Boom festival, highly recommend it)
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Not sure where to put this.

Got a letter today from shopacheck who are part of Welcome Finance. They said they have lost 2 IT backups of cutomer data including name,address,DOB, telephone number and email address of customers.

They were raised as missing 4 weeks ago and...

You should be using Firefox or Chrome because when you attempt to visit a link from these emails it should give you a warning first and then Firefox warns it is a possible phishing site.

Always hover your mouse over a link first without clicking it. You should see the domain name appear...

my wife broke down and come clean about the dedt she created so i requested a CCA,

i got a letter from lloyds tsb after sending a second request, they enclosed in there words "a copy of the reconstituted version of the executed agreement" and a signed statement of the account,...