Tag: Money scams
8 months ago
telegraph.co.uk

Hundreds of thousands of people trafficked into ‘scamdemic’ by south-east Asian gangs, UN warns

Young professionals are lured by fake job offers before being imprisoned in compounds and coerced into defrauding vic...

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11 months ago
telegraph.co.uk

Crypto prison scams pose a ‘serious and imminent public threat’, Interpol warns

‘Global human trafficking crisis’ as victims are lured through fake job adverts before being enslaved in online fraud...

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about 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk

Police spend just 2pc of funding on fraud despite representing 40pc of all crime

Forces not doing enough to combat fraud epidemic, experts say

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about 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk

Inside the crypto ‘prisons’ scamming Britons out of their life savings

A sophisticated cyber racket sweeping the globe – and the financial toll is thought to be running into billions of do...

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about 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk

Britons conned out of life savings by crypto scam run from lawless compounds in Southeast Asia

Thousands of crypto investors across the world have been defrauded out of hundreds of millions of pounds by so-called...

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over 1 year ago
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Crimestoppers Covid hotline shut down despite billions left uncovered in pandemic-era fraud

Closure signals end of Government’s fight against Covid-related fraudulent activity

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almost 3 years ago
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Exclusive: Overseas 'sextortion' gangs targeting the over 40s

Isolation and loneliness during lockdown has led to a sharp rise in cases of cybercrime targeting the vulnerable, the...

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almost 3 years ago
telegraph.co.uk

Fake NHS Covid apps among scams driving huge increase in fraud takedowns

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has removed more scams from the internet last year than in the previous thr...

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almost 3 years ago
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Online platforms exposing users to 'avalanche of scams'

A consumer coalition is calling on the Government to use the Online Harms bill to hold firms like Facebook and Google...

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almost 5 years ago
telegraph.co.uk

Bank transfer fraud: use this calculator to find out if you will get your money back – and how

Victims of bank transfer fraud lost almost £1m every day last year as criminals devise ever more sophisticated ways o...

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