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Callous yobs have stolen charity cash from Sittingbourne’s ‘whistling postman’, a dedicated collector who has raised nearly £300,000 in more than 40 years of bike riding. Dale Howting, 87, had just completed a morning of fundraising on his bike when two youths ran off with it, ripped off the collecting …

Police have issued another warning about scams after a woman was conned out of nearly £10,000. There has been a rise in the reporting of fraudsters sending text messages posing as Royal Mail or DPD delivery services to target people’s cash. Messages typically ask the victim to pay an unpaid …

Millions of bank customers are being warned of a series of scams aiming to empty their accounts. The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) has issued a warning about a new surge in text message scams targeting several of the country’s biggest banks, The Mirror reports. CTSI experts say they’ve seen …

Hundreds of people are being targeted by a cruel text scam which could end up costing thousands. Heartless fraudsters are sending out messages pretending to be Royal Mail, telling people their parcel has an unpaid shipping fee and they must pay the costs to receive the item. The message, which …

Fraudsters are using a Royal Mail scam to target people’s cash – and they’ve already taken one person’s entire life savings. The fraudsters are attempting to get their hands on unsuspecting Brits’ cash by using a “safe account” scam. The scam has been highlighted in the West Midlands by Birmingham …

People must take personal responsibility to avoid falling for scams, a senior figure at UK Finance has said, as she warned that money lost to fraud was ending up in the hands of criminal gangs. Karen Baxter, who joined the banking trade body in October from her previous role as …

Fraud squad chief claims police are LOSING the fight with criminal gangs as he warns scam messages and calls will ‘increasingly become part of modern life’ unless more is done Graeme Biggar, of National Crime Agency, said police ‘not winning’ against fraud The security expert said the ‘anonymous’ cyber crimes …

According to the banking industry body UK Finance, UK consumers were scammed out of a record £479 million last year, with a five per cent annual rise in money lost by customers unwittingly sanctioning payments to criminals.  This included a 94 per cent increase in “impersonation scams” where criminals posing …

Another offered a shopping list of “scam pages and live panels” for TSB at £200 a shot, Barclays at £200, Lloyd’s at £175, HSBC at £150 and Halifax for £125. Other sites touted included Ebay, Apple Pay, PayPal, EE, Netflix, DVLA, HMRC and Royal Mail. UK Finance data showed the …

People flogging valuable items on eBay, Facebook and Gumtree are being warned about a new scam. West Midlands Police say sellers looking to make some extra money in lockdown have been conned out of more than £125,000 by scammers in recent months. The con-artists have been targeting people selling high-value …