You must get plenty of letters about older people being scammed out of their money by shysters. Unfortunately, I am a stupid woman who has been conned out of £12,500. Only when I asked my husband for more money did the scam, which started with a phone call, come to light. The first £1,000 was … Read more
You must get plenty of letters about older people being scammed out of their money by shysters. Unfortunately, I am a stupid woman who has been conned out of £12,500. Only when I asked my husband for more money did the scam, which started with a phone call, come to light. The first £1,000 was … Read more
A woman who signed up to online dating when her husband left her has revealed she was conned out of her life savings by a man posing as a Royal Navy sailor. Lisa, from the south of England, told how she fell for ‘Rob’ – who claimed to be stationed in the Middle East – … Read more
Just over a third of the total amount lost to scams where people were tricked into transferring money to a fraudster was returned to customers in the first half of 2020, according to figures from a trade association. A total of £207.8million was lost to authorised push payment (APP) scams between January and June 2020, … Read more