Scammers

Love scammers swindle MILLIONS from vulnerable women by pretending to be US soldiers and widowers 
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Romance scammers are fleecing vulnerable Australian women out of millions of dollars by pretending to be US soldiers or heartbroken widowers looking for love.

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Pension scammers are moving their operations abroad to dodge tighter UK regulations
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Scammers are taking advantage of Qualified Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes which has seen savers lose up to £10bn between them. Jody Smart saw her firm ‘listed’ with HMRC.

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Bank scammers are stealing £1million a DAY in fraud epidemic
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Bank scam victims lost £207.5 million in the first six months of this year – more than £1.1 million a day. A staggering 57,549 cases of ‘authorised push payment scams’ were recorded by banks.

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Scammers with skimming device and laptop steal contactless card data from shoppers
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The stunt, filmed at Manchester’s Trafford Centre, shows the scammers walking up behind shoppers and waving the device, collecting data which they then use to buy a phone.

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Cruel tactics of scammers revealed
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Figures reveal the scale of the fraud epidemic. In the first six months of the year £145million went missing – almost £1million a day and 50 per cent more than in the same period of 2017.

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Scammers target users of Woolworths Rewards Program across Australia
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On Wednesday night supermarket giant Woolworths sent out a mass email alert to customers confirming some active accounts have been compromised.

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People are discovering that scammers are controlling their Apple accounts using a feature for families to share apps (AAPL)
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The feature is designed to help families share apps and music, but the scammers are using it lock out the actual owner of the account and buy in-app purchases and iTunes gift cards. There are a handful of posts on Apple’s support forums and Reddit that detail similar stories of accounts that couldn’t buy apps […]

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Protect Your Social Security Benefits From Scammers — in Just 5 Minutes
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Thieves are after our current or future Social Security benefits. Here's a way to deter them and reduce your chances of being scammed.

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Ingenious victim inflicts karma on IRS phone scammers
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Ashton Bingham, from LA, filmed his calls from a company posing as the Internal Revenue Service, who tried to con him by syaing he owed tax and would be arrested if he did not pay back immediately.

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Scammers claim US student DIED in Manchester attack
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A sick fraudster, going by the name of Mike Collins, stole a photo of Nisa Ayral, 19, from Arizona, for a GoFundMe page set up to raise money for a fake Manchester terror victim.

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