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13 February 2025
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November 28th 2016 Today, one of the biggest online shopping days of the year along with last week's Black Friday, shoppers are again being warned to safeguard themselves against fraud when hunting for bargains. For information and advice...
28 November 2016
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November 25th 2016 iCloud users are being warned to ignore spurious spam messages relating to iCloud’s calendar and photo sharing functions as it may result in a greatly increased volume of unwanted spam – and potentially fraudulent...
25 November 2016
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November 24th 2016 New Action Fraud data shows sharp rise in people being defrauded via adverts on social media as the Christmas shopping season begins This Christmas the City of London police, who run Action Fraud, supported by police...
24 November 2016
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November 18th 2016 Three men have been arrested and charged as a result of the data breach on mobile network Three. Unusually, the stolen data was used by the fraudsters to steal mobile handsets, but Three’s nine million customers are...
18 November 2016
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November 8th 2016 Tesco Bank customers are this morning being warned to be on the alert for fake emails, phone calls and other approaches made with the objective of committing fraud or identity theft – or both. They should also take extra...
8 November 2016
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October 26th 2016 Government urges Britons to #ThinkRandom to protect themselves from identity fraud For information and advice on safe use of your passwords, click here The latest government statistics from Ipsos MORI show that only 35% of...
26 October 2016
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