Tag: scam

The Covid-19 lockdown has encouraged scammers to take up their efforts a notch, according to Barclays.

As the Covid-19 crisis continues, not even the UK's financial markets watchdog has been immune to the growing number scams sweeping across the world in the wake of the pandemic.

After several cybersecurity companies and government bodies have warned that the spread of the coronavirus has increased the number of cybsersecurity threats, criminals have now started to use phones in their scams.

Seven out of eight gang members have been jailed after defrauding thousands of people through hacking PayPal and BT accounts.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned investors to ever-vigilant of investment scams, after data reveals £197m in losses for 2018.