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Jul 26, 2024 · Unfortunately, there are still firms that work without our authorisation. Check our Financial Services Register to find out if a firm is authorised. If you can’t find a firm on the FS Register, contact us on 0800 111 6768. Make sure you only deal with authorised firms.
Jul 4, 2023 · 2. Beware pig butchering. Victims are wooed romantically before being offered fake investments. This horrible hybrid of romance and investment scams called ‘pig butchering’ by scammers. That's because fraudsters ‘fatten up’ the victim with loving words before executing the investment part of the scam.
Sep 21, 2016 · According to the Consumer Sentinel Network, an online investigative tool from the Federal Trade Commission, there were nearly 354,000 imposter scams alone in 2015, the latest data available. That ...
Feb 20, 2015 · The usual check scam works like this: the scammer sends you a fake check for some amount of money, but of course you don't initially realize it's fake. He tells you to deposit the check into your ...
Dec 23, 2021 · Sue Labine, Call Centre Supervisor for the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, said the top scam in Canada from January 2021 to September of this year is the investment scam, with Canadians losing $70.2 ...
Jul 6, 2023 · Phone fraud cost some 68.4 million Americans money in 2022, says the U.S. Spam & Scam Report from Truecaller, creator of a spam-blocking app. The median loss was $1,400 per person scammed, the FTC ...
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