A woman has revealed the story of how she lost more than £113,000 to a Facebook fraudster during lockdown following an elaborate scam. Rachel Elwell, 50, from Brownhills, West Midlands, says she is facing bankruptcy after becoming the latest victim of an increasingly popular online scam – ‘romance fraud’. The export manager was contacted by … Read more
Britain’s biggest high street banks are still failing to provide proper warnings to customers about the risks of losing money in transfer scams, a review has found. Nine banks which signed up to an industry code introduced in May last year are required to provide customers with ‘effective warnings’ so they can protect themselves from … Read more
Once, British banks were regarded as solid and dependable institutions, staffed by responsible people who would guard customers’ savings as they would their own, come famine, flood or war. What was left of that image was destroyed in the 2007/08 banking crisis — symbolised by the queues of people outside Northern Rock branches desperate to … Read more
The Walking Dead: World Beyond: Iris Bennett gets scammed by newcomer Percy as her intuition fails By Paul Chavez For Dailymail.com Published: 08:44 GMT, 9 November 2020 | Updated: 08:44 GMT, 9 November 2020 Iris Bennett relied on her intuition and got scammed by Percy on Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead: World Beyond. The … Read more
A pensioner who was scammed out of his £330,000 life savings has revealed that it’s like being ‘stabbed in the heart’ but confessed that he still didn’t tell his children ‘for four years’ to avoid their devastation. British OAP Dennis appeared on ITV’s Tonight investigation Scams: Ripping off the Elderly?, last night, to talk about his traumatic … Read more
I received texts from PayPal at 3.17am and 5.17am on August 6 about a suspicious transaction. It was for £170.94 to a company called Zalando SE. I replied at 10.21am with a ‘2’ to signify it was an unauthorised transaction. PayPal responded saying that texting was unavailable for this service! One reader was left out … Read more