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April 23rd 2018 Consumer advice champion and MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis is suing Facebook over claims it has published more than 50 fake advertisements bearing his name. Mr Lewis claims that many of the advertisements have been...
23 April 2018
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April 18th 2018 Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service, has released a new report identifying and detailing the fraud trends from over 300,000 cases of fraudulent conduct recorded in 2017. The data, from 306 organisations,...
18 April 2018
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April 7th 2018 £6.7 million was reported as lost to holiday booking fraud in the UK last year, with airline tickets and online accommodation main targets For information and advice on safe holiday and travel booking, click here Fraudsters...
6 April 2018
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Ma\rch 17th 2018 Camelot, the operator of the National Lottery, has asked all customers to change their passwords as a precaution, following a "low level" cyberattack that affected some 150 accounts. Get Safe Online experts go one step...
17 March 2018
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March 1st 2018 Today sees the launch of Get Safe Online’s March awareness campaign, focusing on ticket fraud. For information and advice about buying tickets safely online, click here Every year, thousands of Brits fall victim to ticket...
1 March 2018
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February 21st 2018 A new survey suggests that half of Britons aged 18-25 use the same password for multiple online services, making it easy for criminals to hijack their accounts. For information and advice on safe creation and use of...
21 February 2018
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February 13th 2018 New statistics released ahead of Valentine’s Day prove that the UK is continuing to lose huge amounts of money to romance fraud – with victims conned out of £41 million in 2017 alone. This is according to...
13 February 2018
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