Net card fraud 'underestimated'

23 Apr 2008

The extent to which criminals are targeting the internet for credit and debit card fraud is far greater than earlier estimates, new figures suggest.

Warning: 'phishing' scams on the rise

16 Apr 2008

The number of people caught out by fraudulent e-mails that entice the recipient to disclose their personal banking details has rocketed over the past year.

Six big con tricks - just say no

07 Apr 2008

Spanish lottery | Award notifications | Clothing collection | Dodgy catalogues | Phoney astrologers | Racing tipsters

Is this the most wicked scam yet?

07 Apr 2008

Horrific tales of rape and murder fill the begging letters from children in Uganda. But they are completely bogus. Patrick Collinson reveals how one man was conned out of more than £3,000

One morning in August last year, Peter Saunders from Edinburgh received a heart-wrenching letter from Namukula Viola of Uganda. She is just 16, with two younger sisters, orphaned when her mother was raped and killed by rebels in fighting in the north of the country.

Not in my name

03 Apr 2008

It is far easier than you may think to steal someone's identity. All you need are a few details from your victim's bills and receipts - and a bit of cheek, as one former ID fraudster tells a very alarmed Tim Dowling

Turning up the heat on boiler rooms

19 Mar 2008

If you own shares, beware of out-of-the-blue telephone calls promising instant investment fortunes. For the persuasive call could be from a "boiler room", a high-pressure sales operation, usually based abroad, selling worthless shares that could leave you bust.

Plastic card fraud jumps by 25%

19 Mar 2008

Losses from credit and debit card fraud jumped 25% last year to reach £535m, driven by a surge in crimes being committed overseas by criminals using stolen UK card details, figures showed today.

Fraud hits 12 year high in 2007

05 Feb 2008

Britain’s fraud problem shows no sign of abating, with over £1bn of fraud coming to court in 2007 according to KPMG Forensic’s Fraud Barometer - the highest value since 1995 and the second highest in the 20 year history of the Barometer.

MILLIONS of Brits have been targeted by internet fraudsters using the “phishing” scam to steal their bank and credit card details.

23 Oct 2007

Our survey revealed that nearly a third of internet users had clicked on a link or responded to a rogue email from someone they didn’t know — putting themselves at risk.

Fighting Fraud Together

15 Oct 2007

Today, the Government gave the green light to a groundbreaking initiative to protect business, taxpayers and the public from fraud.  

'Freeze law' proposed to keep ID fraudsters in the cold

09 Oct 2007

Campaigners are calling for a change in the law to restrict lenders' access to consumers' credit reports in a bid to reduce identity theft.

Bank and card fraudsters forced abroad

08 Oct 2007

CARD fraud has soared this year despite the introduction of chip and pin.

UK police in Nigerian scam haul

04 Oct 2007

Thousands of fake cheques worth an estimated £8m have been seized in an operation targeting international scams using e-mails.

The great charity collection scam

20 Aug 2007

It's a particularly unpleasant crime: posing as a good cause, taking advantage of people's better nature and stealing £3m a year from the genuine charities. Tony Levene looks at the gangs who are behind the clothing collection rip-off

Big rise in overseas credit card fraud

18 Jul 2007

Holidaymakers were warned to keep a watchful eye on their credit card today after new figures revealed that card fraud is on the rise overseas.

Watchdog seeks an end to 'horror' of personal data security leaks

11 Jul 2007

Britain's data watchdog sparked a row with business leaders yesterday when he called for more powers to confront companies that fail to protect personal information held on computers. He wants a new rule that would allow investigators to look at files without the permission of company directors.

Revoke the phishing licence

02 Jul 2007

The effect of having your details stolen via a bogus website can be devastating. Danny Bradbury looks at what the big players are doing to stamp out the problem

Home Office slammed over credit card fraud

02 Jul 2007

The Home Office has been accused of failing to take credit card fraud seriously following the introduction of rules that mean victims can no longer report incidents directly to the police.

Gangs infect 10,000 websites to steal users' bank details

02 Jul 2007

· 'Italian Job' is next stage in cyber identity crime
· Viruses planted on charity and tourism pages

EU clampdown spawns new carousel fraud

29 May 2007

A new and virulent form of VAT "carousel" fraud is sweeping across Europe, threatening to defeat governments' efforts to combat it and pushing annual tax losses up by billions of euros

Fraudbusters to grab suspects' assets

21 May 2007

Government fraudbusters are to be allowed to claim millions of pounds worth of assets, even from those who have not been found guilty of any financial crime.

Dan Atkinson, Mail on Sunday
20 May 2007

Organised crime and the threat to your PC

25 Apr 2007

Online identity theft is at the heart of a worldwide black market in personal details.

By Esther Shaw          Published: 22 April 2007

Stolen credit card details on sale for as little as £1

21 Mar 2007

Confidential data on tens of thousands of people is being sold by criminal gangs for as little as a £1, allowing fraudsters to steal money from on-line bank and credit accounts, according to a new report.

Use of chip and pin cards pushes criminals abroad

21 Mar 2007

Losses from online banking fraud jumped 44% to reach £33.5m last year following a surge in "phishing" attacks, the latest figures show.

Don’t use cards at petrol stations

22 Feb 2007

Security experts say you should only pay with cash when filling up your car, after a spate of card cloning cases. By Ali Hussain

Government joins Europe-wide campaign to catch fraudsters

08 Jan 2007

The government promised yesterday to crack down on fraudsters operating abroad after it signed up to a network of national enforcement agencies with powers to cooperate across the European Union.

Phillip Inman
Saturday December 30, 2007

When a sting causes real pain

05 Dec 2006

Scam 1

The elderly man who paid £16,000 to a 'Customs' officer to avoid jail

Scam 2

A cheque for £2,000, out of the blue, sounds too good to be true. And it is. The latest scam to land on your doomat has come all the way from Canada

'I was target of £3,000 web con'

14 Jul 2006

Fraud-fight expert's new role

26 Jun 2006

Fighting fraud the regional way

19 Jun 2006

Fraudsters slip through regional net

14 Jun 2006

Cert fraud analysis post High Court judgement summary

25 May 2006

Lockup your laptop there's an ID thief about

30 Mar 2006

Cost of fighting ID fraud soars

03 Feb 2006

Be careful: they are out to get you

24 Jan 2006

The European Fraud Forum Network

06 Dec 2005

Fellow European Partners are now sought and invited to participate in a
European Fraud Forum Network

Fraudsters go online as chip pins them down

10 Nov 2005

As anti-fraud measures seem to be closing one door on thieves, figures released today show that fraudsters are turning increasingly to the internet with scams

Scambusters unleashed on marketing Fraudsters

13 Oct 2005

The 10-member team, set up by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), will target the most prevalent and widespread scams aimed at British consumers.

Watchdog warns of rising scams

22 Jun 2005

Rising numbers of customers are being conned out of money by rogue businesses who use temporary trading addresses as a front, Trading Standards warned today.

Phishing fraudsters are trapping victims with an impudent double bluff

22 Jun 2005

INTERNET fraudsters are using an audacious double bluff to rob people of their cash: spam e-mails give warning of the risks of responding to unsolicited mail that asks customers to disclose internet banking log-in details — before inviting would-be victims to do just that.

ID thieves' new threat to business

31 May 2005

Small businesses are wide open to a dangerous new form of identity fraud. Few safeguards are in place to prevent criminals running up thousands of pounds of debt in their name. (Click on link below go to special reports and then use search facility - id thieves this will take you to full article)

50% of internet users targeted by email money scams

17 May 2005

Almost half of internet users have received spam emails aimed at tricking them into revealing information such as bank details, research showed today.

Net card fraud 'underestimated'

23 Apr 2008

The extent to which criminals are targeting the internet for credit and debit card fraud is far greater than earlier estimates, new figures suggest.

Warning: 'phishing' scams on the rise

16 Apr 2008

The number of people caught out by fraudulent e-mails that entice the recipient to disclose their personal banking details has rocketed over the past year.

Six big con tricks - just say no

07 Apr 2008

Spanish lottery | Award notifications | Clothing collection | Dodgy catalogues | Phoney astrologers | Racing tipsters

Is this the most wicked scam yet?

07 Apr 2008

Horrific tales of rape and murder fill the begging letters from children in Uganda. But they are completely bogus. Patrick Collinson reveals how one man was conned out of more than £3,000

One morning in August last year, Peter Saunders from Edinburgh received a heart-wrenching letter from Namukula Viola of Uganda. She is just 16, with two younger sisters, orphaned when her mother was raped and killed by rebels in fighting in the north of the country.

Not in my name

03 Apr 2008

It is far easier than you may think to steal someone's identity. All you need are a few details from your victim's bills and receipts - and a bit of cheek, as one former ID fraudster tells a very alarmed Tim Dowling

Turning up the heat on boiler rooms

19 Mar 2008

If you own shares, beware of out-of-the-blue telephone calls promising instant investment fortunes. For the persuasive call could be from a "boiler room", a high-pressure sales operation, usually based abroad, selling worthless shares that could leave you bust.

Plastic card fraud jumps by 25%

19 Mar 2008

Losses from credit and debit card fraud jumped 25% last year to reach £535m, driven by a surge in crimes being committed overseas by criminals using stolen UK card details, figures showed today.

Fraud hits 12 year high in 2007

05 Feb 2008

Britain’s fraud problem shows no sign of abating, with over £1bn of fraud coming to court in 2007 according to KPMG Forensic’s Fraud Barometer - the highest value since 1995 and the second highest in the 20 year history of the Barometer.

MILLIONS of Brits have been targeted by internet fraudsters using the “phishing” scam to steal their bank and credit card details.

23 Oct 2007

Our survey revealed that nearly a third of internet users had clicked on a link or responded to a rogue email from someone they didn’t know — putting themselves at risk.

Fighting Fraud Together

15 Oct 2007

Today, the Government gave the green light to a groundbreaking initiative to protect business, taxpayers and the public from fraud.  

'Freeze law' proposed to keep ID fraudsters in the cold

09 Oct 2007

Campaigners are calling for a change in the law to restrict lenders' access to consumers' credit reports in a bid to reduce identity theft.

Bank and card fraudsters forced abroad

08 Oct 2007

CARD fraud has soared this year despite the introduction of chip and pin.

UK police in Nigerian scam haul

04 Oct 2007

Thousands of fake cheques worth an estimated £8m have been seized in an operation targeting international scams using e-mails.

The great charity collection scam

20 Aug 2007

It's a particularly unpleasant crime: posing as a good cause, taking advantage of people's better nature and stealing £3m a year from the genuine charities. Tony Levene looks at the gangs who are behind the clothing collection rip-off

Big rise in overseas credit card fraud

18 Jul 2007

Holidaymakers were warned to keep a watchful eye on their credit card today after new figures revealed that card fraud is on the rise overseas.

Watchdog seeks an end to 'horror' of personal data security leaks

11 Jul 2007

Britain's data watchdog sparked a row with business leaders yesterday when he called for more powers to confront companies that fail to protect personal information held on computers. He wants a new rule that would allow investigators to look at files without the permission of company directors.

Revoke the phishing licence

02 Jul 2007

The effect of having your details stolen via a bogus website can be devastating. Danny Bradbury looks at what the big players are doing to stamp out the problem

Home Office slammed over credit card fraud

02 Jul 2007

The Home Office has been accused of failing to take credit card fraud seriously following the introduction of rules that mean victims can no longer report incidents directly to the police.

Gangs infect 10,000 websites to steal users' bank details

02 Jul 2007

· 'Italian Job' is next stage in cyber identity crime
· Viruses planted on charity and tourism pages

EU clampdown spawns new carousel fraud

29 May 2007

A new and virulent form of VAT "carousel" fraud is sweeping across Europe, threatening to defeat governments' efforts to combat it and pushing annual tax losses up by billions of euros

Fraudbusters to grab suspects' assets

21 May 2007

Government fraudbusters are to be allowed to claim millions of pounds worth of assets, even from those who have not been found guilty of any financial crime.

Dan Atkinson, Mail on Sunday
20 May 2007

Organised crime and the threat to your PC

25 Apr 2007

Online identity theft is at the heart of a worldwide black market in personal details.

By Esther Shaw          Published: 22 April 2007

Stolen credit card details on sale for as little as £1

21 Mar 2007

Confidential data on tens of thousands of people is being sold by criminal gangs for as little as a £1, allowing fraudsters to steal money from on-line bank and credit accounts, according to a new report.

Use of chip and pin cards pushes criminals abroad

21 Mar 2007

Losses from online banking fraud jumped 44% to reach £33.5m last year following a surge in "phishing" attacks, the latest figures show.

Don’t use cards at petrol stations

22 Feb 2007

Security experts say you should only pay with cash when filling up your car, after a spate of card cloning cases. By Ali Hussain

Government joins Europe-wide campaign to catch fraudsters

08 Jan 2007

The government promised yesterday to crack down on fraudsters operating abroad after it signed up to a network of national enforcement agencies with powers to cooperate across the European Union.

Phillip Inman
Saturday December 30, 2007

When a sting causes real pain

05 Dec 2006

Scam 1

The elderly man who paid £16,000 to a 'Customs' officer to avoid jail

Scam 2

A cheque for £2,000, out of the blue, sounds too good to be true. And it is. The latest scam to land on your doomat has come all the way from Canada

'I was target of £3,000 web con'

14 Jul 2006

Fraud-fight expert's new role

26 Jun 2006

Fighting fraud the regional way

19 Jun 2006

Fraudsters slip through regional net

14 Jun 2006

Cert fraud analysis post High Court judgement summary

25 May 2006

Lockup your laptop there's an ID thief about

30 Mar 2006

Cost of fighting ID fraud soars

03 Feb 2006

Be careful: they are out to get you

24 Jan 2006

The European Fraud Forum Network

06 Dec 2005

Fellow European Partners are now sought and invited to participate in a
European Fraud Forum Network

Fraudsters go online as chip pins them down

10 Nov 2005

As anti-fraud measures seem to be closing one door on thieves, figures released today show that fraudsters are turning increasingly to the internet with scams

Scambusters unleashed on marketing Fraudsters

13 Oct 2005

The 10-member team, set up by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), will target the most prevalent and widespread scams aimed at British consumers.

Watchdog warns of rising scams

22 Jun 2005

Rising numbers of customers are being conned out of money by rogue businesses who use temporary trading addresses as a front, Trading Standards warned today.

Phishing fraudsters are trapping victims with an impudent double bluff

22 Jun 2005

INTERNET fraudsters are using an audacious double bluff to rob people of their cash: spam e-mails give warning of the risks of responding to unsolicited mail that asks customers to disclose internet banking log-in details — before inviting would-be victims to do just that.

ID thieves' new threat to business

31 May 2005

Small businesses are wide open to a dangerous new form of identity fraud. Few safeguards are in place to prevent criminals running up thousands of pounds of debt in their name. (Click on link below go to special reports and then use search facility - id thieves this will take you to full article)

50% of internet users targeted by email money scams

17 May 2005

Almost half of internet users have received spam emails aimed at tricking them into revealing information such as bank details, research showed today.