Category: Latest Fraud News

Hotel Scams

You arrive at your hotel and check in at the front desk. When checking in, you give the front desk your credit card (for all the charges for your room). You get to your room and settle in. Link to article

Retail shrinkage cost £2.6 billion this year

Compared to last year, shoplifters and mischief-makers have cut retailers some slack this year. According to The Retail Fraud Survey 2013/14, published by retail consultancy Retail Knowledge Ltd and sponsored by payment experts Kount and Volumatic, retail shrinkage rate in UK went slightly down. The survey says that a slight reduction was observed in shrinkage […]

Dot Tickets steps to tackle online ticketing fraud

British company The Dot Tickets Organisation, one of the applicants in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) process to create hundreds of new internet addresses alongside .com, has been named as the first independent company to successfully pass the stringent ICANN criteria for the “.tickets” Top Level Domain (TLD) at the end […]

UK cyber-attacks

Four modern day pirates launched cyber-attacks on the CIA and global corporations stealing huge amounts of sensitive data and causing websites to crash across the world for their own amusement, a court heard today. Link to article

Scams Awareness Month

May 2013 is Scams Awareness Month, currently being delivered by the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) alongside the Trading Standards Institute. According to the CAB, more than three million people in the UK fall victim to scams every year, costing the country a staggering £3.5 billion per annum. Virtually half of us (48 per cent) have […]