Scam alert news

2025

1. 28 May

   

   'Our Thailand Booking.com villa was a scam'

   Consumer Rights
2. 26 May

   

   Scam watch: conned by a copycat Lastminute.com website

   Consumer Rights
3. 21 May

   

   Scam alert: watch out for this fake eBay transaction email

   Consumer Rights
4. 21 May

   

   Sim-swap scammers exploit weak email security, warns Which? 

   Consumer Rights
5. 16 May

   

   How fraudsters peddled an eBay job scam

   Consumer Rights
6. 14 May

   

   Scammers buy Google ads to con shoppers with a fake Costco website

   Consumer Rights
7. 13 May

   

   4 times data breaches ramped up the UK's fraud risk

   Consumer Rights
8. 07 May

   

   Property scams: what are they and how to avoid them

   Consumer Rights
9. 06 May

   

   Scam alert: new parking fine scam text

   Consumer Rights
10. 01 May

    

    'Scammers appear to have spoofed my number'

    Consumer Rights
11. 30 Apr

    

    Scam alert: watch out for fake iCloud storage emails

    Consumer Rights
12. 24 Apr

    

    Which? Scam Alerts: the biggest scams of the past five years

    Consumer Rights
13. 23 Apr

    

    Which? warns Gmail users to watch out for this convincing phishing email

    Consumer Rights
14. 17 Apr

    

    ID fraud is on the rise with criminals using AI to scale their attacks

    Consumer Rights
15. 16 Apr

    

    Shopping scam alert: Bonmarché scam ads and how to spot purchase scams

    Consumer Rights
16. 09 Apr

    

    Scamscriptions: how to stop a dodgy recurring payment

    Consumer Rights
17. 07 Apr

    

    Phishing, smishing and vishing: could you spot the signs of these common scams?

    Consumer Rights
18. 03 Apr

    

    Amazon 'iPhone in your basket' scam warning

    Consumer Rights
19. 02 Apr

    

    Are the Microsoft 'single-use code' emails legit?

    Consumer Rights
20. 27 Mar

    

    'Help! Rogue traders conned £6k out of me and vanished'

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