This month, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) received considerable evidence of banking scams sent via text messages. The scam texts, in most cases, pretend to be security messages from a bank requesting confirmation of a payment made from a digital device not used before. In another piece of evidence, …
Read More »Fife and Edinburgh muslim community going the extra mile to help Fifers during pandemic
The community is an internationally recognised movement within Islam, with its followers committed to promoting friendship, goodwill and righteousness, not only amongst themselves, but also amongst other nations and communities. The group have been helping to collect and make donations of food to the Kirkcaldy Foodbank and Linton Lane Centre, …
Read More »You Can Now Buy Kit Kat Strawberry Chocolate Bars In The UK
The tasty bars have a strawberry flavoured filling in between their crispy layers of biscuit, and are coated in delicious, creamy milk chocolate. And they’re finally available in the UK, thanks to confectionary website, GB Gifts. The chocolate bar was launched in India (Credit: Nestle) The chocolate bars were originally …
Read More »Royal Mail offers Parcel Collect free of charge
In order to use the service, which normally includes a pick-up charge of 72p for a parcel or 60p for a return item, customers simply need to ensure they have paid the correct postage to send their item. Customers are able to pay for their postage online using click-and-drop available …
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Thanks to TikTok, we’ve been learning all sorts of weird and wonderful things – from why Digestive biscuits are called Digestives to sneaky tricks to apply the perfect winged eyeliner. But as well as teaching us valuable life hacks, the videos often make us pause for thought. This seems to …
Read More »How A Fake Text Led To Student Being Scammed Out Of “Every Penny” | Panorama
Ammon News – Emmeline Hartley transferred 1,000 pounds out of her account after a man claiming to be from Barclays Bank called her. A woman has spoken up about how she was “scammed out of every penny” she had in the hope that her story will serve as a warning …
Read More »Royal Mail parcel pick-up offer signals delivery battle
Royal Mail worker Royal Mail is offering free parcel pick-ups from home for the next few weeks as it tries to boost its delivery business. The company faced fierce criticism over Christmas for serious delivery delays. Now it has cleared the backlog, it is hoping to pick up more business …
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Royal Mail introduced several new initiatives to help facilitate increased parcel deliveries and collections last year. These initiatives, plus the e- … Source link
Read More »Top 10 brands scammers impersonate in phishing email attacks
PAYPAL and Amazon are the top two brands fraudsters use in phishing email attacks to scam people in the UK, figures have revealed. The data, produced by Dojo, a payments provider, looked at the number of Google searches for well-known brands and scams, and found that the percentage increase year-on-year …
Read More »Fraud warnings issued to Barclays, Halifax, HSBC and Lloyds customers over viral scam
Fraud warnings have been issued to online banking customers after a rise in text message scams targeting savings accounts as the tax-year draws to a close. Tens of thousands of scam messages, purporting to be from Barclays, Halifax, HSBC and Lloyds have been issued in the past week – asking …
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