| 5 phone scams you should know about |
Vishing scams, otherwise known as phone scams, involve fraudsters calling you and attempting to get your personal details under false guises.
These scams can be particularly annoying and, in some cases, incredibly persuasive.
We've rounded up five phone scams you need to know about now, including one where the caller impersonates your GP. |
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| Scam texts: what can be done to stop them?
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A recent survey carried out by Ofcom, the UK's telecoms regulator, found that more than half of people received a suspicious text message in the past three months.
While hundreds of millions of dodgy texts are blocked, scammers continue to find ways to get them through.
We look at the scam texts that slip through the net. |
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| What you need to know about task scams |
Scammers are dangling the bait of flexible hours, remote working and ‘daily commissions’ for simple online tasks such as liking videos, leaving reviews and completing surveys.
We explain how a typical job scam works and hear from one victim in her 70s who lost a devastating sum when she agreed to place adverts for tourist attractions online for a fictitious ‘Google’ company.
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| Scam sharer tool |
| There's an easy way to make us aware of scams directly with our
scam sharer tool.
Tell us your experiences of phishing emails, fake texts, cold calls and other types of fraud. |
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