Fridays are an exciting day for Mercantile Claims, not only is it nearly the weekend, but the team all take part in Dress Down Friday. Each member of the team pays a small amount and at the end of the year all proceeds are added up and donated to a chosen charity. […]
Police in Ireland have issued a warning after a woman handed over €48,000 to a fraudster. According to police, the woman was showered with gifts over a 13 month period, before he asked her to invest in his business.
The fraudster invested a considerable amount of time and effort in his victim. Over […]
Administrators bought into sort out Wonga, the Payday lender following its collapse in August 2018, say the actual number of consumers able to claim compensation is four times higher than initially thought.
The Financial Ombudsman Service told the Treasury Committee in January this year, that there were around 10,500 consumers who had unresolved […]
Seven fraudsters have been sentenced after Action Fraud and Surrey Police launch investigation, following a number of reports made by victims. Action Fraud was able to link the reports made to the watchdog by victims and send them to Surrey Police, who opened an investigation. The seven scammers, stole more than £800,000 […]
Two men have been arrested over a series of nine frauds across Reading and Wokingham.
The incidents all took place between 18 January and 4 February and resulted in jewellery and large sums of money being stolen from elderly and vulnerable victims.
The frauds were committed by the men claiming to be a Detective […]
A young woman from Cambridge had £600 stolen from her bank account after she entered her details on a fake holiday booking site. Alex Roberts found a cheap packaged deal for a trip to the Maldives for just £700, which included flights. The deal seemed like an opportunity she could not miss […]
WhatsApp is notoriously difficult to hack, but somehow scammers have found a new way to gain access to the texting apps end-to-end encryption.
The Telecommunications Authority has issued an advisory on Twitter for WhatsApp users and warned that they should not reply to code verification messages unless it is triggered by the subscriber. Many WhatsApp […]
You are able to pursue a claim yourself to the Financial Ombudsman Service without incurring a fee
