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Task scams, or gamified job scams, are fake online jobs where people are told to like posts, rate videos or offer your feedback on products. These jobs often work within a fake application or website that the victim is prompted to download, after...

Have you received an email with an attachment that’s corrupted? Before you fix the file, know that you could be reading a phishing email.

The fake file phishing attack

The scam starts off with an email, often with a legitimate looking email...

QR codes are everywhere; we use them to read the menu at a restaurant, pay for our parking, sign up to a newsletter or sign in to our streaming service. However, the popularity of QR codes now means that scammers are taking advantage. Quishing,...

When you’ve fallen for a scam, time is of the essence. You need to act quickly in order to inform the necessary people and organisations. This ensures that services can respond swiftly and, if your money has been lost, your bank can attempt...

Sugar scammers, sometimes known as sugar daddies, sugar mommas, or just sugaring, take advantage of those in financial difficulty as well as those looking for partnership by offering to pay their debts. However, at the end of the day, the victim...

Whether you love or loathe Christmas shopping, this year shoppers are contending with more scams than ever. Fake products, cheap knock-offs and AI generated gifts are flooding the market, and finding the gifts you want (at a price that...

In September, TikTok users were posting videos of the Chase bank ‘glitch’; a way to get an infinite supply of cash without any repercussions. However, the ‘glitch’ was actually cheque fraud, and those who tried the...

According to Forbes, 14% of us work from home, with 26% of us working hybrid (sometimes travelling into a place of work, and sometimes working from home). Despite us being 4 years on from the first lockdown, when 46.6% of us...

According to PayPoint, cases of unauthorised cheque fraud have risen by 24% in the last year, costing victims in the UK £5.6 million. This scam targets people selling something either online or offline, and can be devastating for those left...

Pop ups have been around since the dawn of the internet, when you couldn’t even visit a website without your screen being crowded with ads. Now, they’re claiming that your device or your machine has a virus in the hopes that...