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Some of Britain's biggest fraudsters have revealed how it takes less than two minutes to scam victims into sharing their bank account details over the phone - using an app that's illegal to use in the UK.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5409557/Britains-fraudsters-reveal-hack-accounts.html#ixzz57pnLA6Lr
As part of the Tele’s Safe as Houses campaign, Detective Inspector Iain McPhail, of the economic and financial investigation unit, has outlined the tricks crooks use to mine bank accounts.
https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/safe-houses-top-anti-fraud-cop-warning-750k-lost-phone-scams/
Fraudsters are continually embracing new technology and changing their methods in order to get at your hard-earned cash and data.
https://www.lovemoney.com/news/71657/scam-fraud-spoofing-twitter-clone-green-padlock-gift-card-fines
MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis has said he's "sickened" by a new scam which tries to trick victims using his name and profile picture on Facebook Messenger.
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/site/2018/02/martin-lewis-warns-about-scam-facebook-private-messages-pretending-to-come-from-him
Tricksters are at it again on WhatsApp, this time they're peddling a scam giveaway of 3,000 Adidas shoes and a free Samsung phone
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5539279/whatsapp-scam-adidas-trainers/
Fraudsters are conning older people out of thousands of pounds by asking them to pay off a non-existent tax debt in iTunes vouchers.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fraudsters-targeting-older-people-itunes-tax-scam-105800792.html
Crooks are using all sorts of tricks to not only scare users but also to try and ‘lock’ their browsers
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/2018/02/tech-support-scammers-find-new-way-jam-google-chrome/
A new version of a classic online scam is percolating on Twitter
https://www.wired.com/story/classic-scam-steals-bitcoin-on-twitter/
Top tips to protect your money against fraud
http://www.cityam.com/280154/scheme-scam-top-tips-protect-your-money-against-con-artists
The Scottish football club lost almost £1 million in October 2017, after falling victim to a sophisticated bank fraud.
https://digit.fyi/hamilton-academical-sue-rbs-scam/
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