Scams news

2025

1. 01 May

   

   'Scammers appear to have spoofed my number'

   Consumer Rights
2. 30 Apr

   

   Scam alert: watch out for fake iCloud storage emails

   Consumer Rights
3. 24 Apr

   

   Which? Scam Alerts: the biggest scams of the past five years

   Consumer Rights
4. 23 Apr

   

   Which? warns Gmail users to watch out for this convincing phishing email

   Consumer Rights
5. 21 Apr

   

   5 things I would never do as a banking and scams expert

   Banking
6. 17 Apr

   

   ID fraud is on the rise with criminals using AI to scale their attacks

   Consumer Rights
7. 16 Apr

   

   Shopping scam alert: Bonmarché scam ads and how to spot purchase scams

   Consumer Rights
8. 09 Apr

   

   Scamscriptions: how to stop a dodgy recurring payment

   Consumer Rights
9. 07 Apr

   

   Phishing, smishing and vishing: could you spot the signs of these common scams?

   Consumer Rights
10. 03 Apr

    

    Amazon 'iPhone in your basket' scam warning

    Consumer Rights
11. 02 Apr

    

    Are the Microsoft 'single-use code' emails legit?

    Consumer Rights
12. 27 Mar

    

    'Help! Rogue traders conned £6k out of me and vanished'

    Consumer Rights
13. 26 Mar

    

    Four new sneaky text message scams to watch out for

    Consumer Rights
14. 25 Mar

    

    Scam alert: job scams to watch out for

    Consumer Rights
15. 19 Mar

    

    Scam alert: bogus QR codes continue to target motorists

    Consumer Rights
16. 17 Mar

    

    Scam ads targeting learner drivers circulate on social media

    Consumer Rights
17. 11 Mar

    

    5 ways to help older people avoid scams

    Consumer Rights
18. 05 Mar

    

    Scam Empire: the $275m scam call-centres flogging bogus investments

    Consumer Rights
19. 05 Mar

    

    Deepfake phone calls: a quarter of scam calls in the UK are powered by AI

    Consumer Rights
20. 04 Mar

    

    'Scammers cloned my event on Eventbrite'

    Consumer Rights