The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau recently identified 1,000 different holiday scams aimed at British holidaymakers, and says that criminals separated tourists from £1.5 million in the last year alone. Link to article
Month: January 2014
Protecting your online information is easy
CIFAS – the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service (in collaboration with Dionach, the leading independent global Information Security company) today releases Protecting your online information: a quick and easy guide on how best to protect yourself and your data when online. Link to article
Another IFA falls victim to boiler room scam
Regulator warns against two London-based boiler room operations. Boiler room fraudsters are contacting consumers posing as a County Durham-based advisory firm, which is the latest victim of the growing spectre of so-called ‘clone firm’ scams. According to an alert published last week by the regulator, a London-based boiler room is contacting customers from an email […]
Mobile Threat Monday
Secure told SecurityWatch that the phony Minecraft PE is currently available on several Russian app stores. This isn’t surprising as not all third party stores vet their apps as thoroughly as Google, making some of them havens for malicious applications. Link to article
Top 10 travel scams to look out for
Welcome to the brave new world of vacation ripoffs! The old “catch my baby while I pick your pocket” trick seems downright tame compared with this scary new breed of travel cons. Link to article
Met police to open cyber crime unit
Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe today announced plans to develop a “world-leading unit” of police detectives to fight cyber crime. Hogan-Howe claims that traditional policing of cyber crime has failed and many victims reporting a cyber-related crime never speak to a police officer. Link to article
Cyber crime, financial crime top list of threats
Combating the convergence of cyber crime and financial crime heads the list of priorities for defending against digital criminality in 2014 from information intelligence solutions vendor BAE Systems Detica’s. Link to article
Beware fraudulent Rugby World Cup 2015 tickets
The Metropolitan Police has issued a warning for consumers over fraudulent Rugby World Cup 2015 tickets, which went on sale on 1 January 2014. The Met’s Operation Sterling team issued its alert after it uncovered evidence that tickets for the event – held across venues in England and Wales in September/October 2015 – are already […]
Air passengers target of short message scam
Air passengers are warned to be careful of short message scams that claim that their flights are delayed or cancelled and seek bank account details with promises of refunds. Link to article
Insurance firm recovers estimated £37 million
A BOLTON firm responsible for crushing insurance fraud rings around the UK has issued a stark warning to potential cash-for-crash drivers hoping to profit in the new year. Link to article
Rental Car Damage scam
You’ve been on vacation for the last two weeks and don’t have a care in the world, driving around in a rental car that you are just returning as you get ready to hop on a plane to your next destination. You drop it off in the lot and go into the office so they […]
Fake Travel Agency scam
This is one of the most common travel scams, especially when hot destinations are on everybody’s mind. Link to article
Customers warned of fraud risk
Insurance firm Staysure has written to more than 90,000 customers to warn they could have been victims of fraud after a cyber attack. Link to article
Cybercriminals – 5 targets in 2014
Internet security firms Fortiguard Labs, Websense Security Labs, Symantec, Trend Micro and Sophos have all issued their predictions about whom cybercriminals and hackers will be targeting in 2014, and many of them follow similar themes. Here’s a round-up of the top five predicted targets. Link to article
When Fraud Prevention Gets in the Way
Online merchants must balance protecting customers with giving them what they want. Anyone who’s driven a car with a manual transmission understands the challenge of getting the perfect balance between the clutch and gas pedals. Too much of one or the other causes stalling and unintended traffic jams. If you leave the clutch in, the […]
250 calls a week about scams on Gumtree
Police receive 250 crime and fraud allegations a week connected to the online ‘small ads’ service Gumtree. After a young mother tried to sell her four-month-old baby on the website, it has now emerged that criminals are using Gumtree to target consumers. Many people turned to the site to find bargain Christmas presents and January […]
Investment scams to avoid in 2014
The average amount of money victims lose to an investment scam is £5,887, Which? research has found. When it comes to investing, risk and reward go hand in hand. And with savings rates failing to beat inflation, it may be tempting to take a chance on something racier to get a better return. But there […]
UBS Investment International
Mr. David Hodgkins UBS Investment Bank, London, UK, EC1YDR. My name is Mr. David Hodgkins, the Manager of UBS Investment International. We have idle funds lying in an investor portfolio for over 6 years. I am therefore looking for someone to trust who will stand to receive the funds without hitches. All confirmable documents to […]