We truly live in the age of the internet. Thanks to widespread connectivity and the mass adoption of smartphone technology, we can order plane tickets whilst in bed, or buy a sofa on the train to work. This digital revolution hasn’t come without its consequences, however. Hackers and fraudsters are becoming ever more adept at […]

If you’re being bullied online. support is available Being bullied is awful in any setting, but online bullying can feel inescapable. Bullies tend to hide behind the anonymity the Internet provides, feeling powerful and able to insult people via email, instant messaging and social media. In some cases simply ignoring the comments can be enough […]

Phishing, vishing, smishing… do you know what these are and how to stop becoming a victim of them?  A major new awareness campaign was launched today (10th November) in an effort to help people get wise to scams.  The campaign – ‘If you can spot it, you can stop it’ – put together by the […]

Having cost the UK almost £11bn in the past year, online fraud and cybercrime are becoming increasingly uncomfortable facts of modern life. Yet even though many of us are becoming more clued up to such threats, some of us are still failing to take the necessary precautions. For example, almost half of us are still using […]

Action on Elder Abuse Cymru is holding its first annual conference on the 21st November in Cardiff, entitled ‘Financially Safe and Secure? – Working together to protect older people from financial abuse’.  Deadline for booking places is Thursday 27 October. The day will cover scams as well as financial crimes perpetrated by people known to the […]

The game’s supporters tell us it’s a great way to get into online gaming and also taking regular exercise, but on the other side of the coin you’ll have heard about some of the negative aspects, like the potential to cause a road traffic accident by not paying attention when crossing the road, inadvertently trespassing […]

An alleged text message from Apple On Saturday, a friend of mine received a text message allegedly from Apple, to tell her that her “iapple account has been frozen”, and instructing her to visit a website – via clicking on a link – to validate her account. Needless to say (because you’re reading about it […]

NatWest has released details of some of the most unbelievable scams seen in the last year to remind everyone that scammers are going to increasing lengths to target customers. Each of the cases presented in this article was brought to the attention of NatWest’s Community Protection Advisers (CPAs). These anti-fraud specialists work with frontline employees […]

Baby’s first iPhone? The truth may not be that far off. Last year, The Daily Mail reported that more than 50 percent of parents said they had bought their kids a phone before their tenth birthday. And by high school age, the number is even greater—around 70 percent of teens in the UK carry and […]

Websites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn put us in touch with ‘friends’ we’ve never seen in person.  And a lot of us look for partners online too.   These days a third of all relationships begin that way. That’s a lot of happy stories.  But what happens when you move from fantasy to reality and you […]