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Bitcoin: Fake Elon Musk giveaway scam 'cost man 400,000'
2021-03-16 01:15:38| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A German man lost 10 Bitcoin to so-called giveaway scammers on Twitter and experts say scams are rising.
Scam alert: 'I was desperate for a job'
2020-12-09 01:06:28| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
One victim's tells of "pushy" fraudsters as a charity says mental health issues leave people exposed to scams.
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Amazon parcel scam targets woman eight months after her death
2020-10-21 02:22:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
David Henderson found an Amazon account had been opened using his late wife's name and address.
Recent Ofcom regulation decimates 070 scam calls
2020-10-02 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Around a year ago, Ofcom introduced new regulations to cap the wholesale cost of calls to 070 numbers, in part to reduce the number of fraudulent attacks this mobile number range. Today, a report from BICS is showing that the move has had great effect, reducing the number of scam calls by 75% between October 2019 and September 2020…read more on TotalTele.com »
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Hucksters Rake In $500K With Android, iOS Adware Scam Apps
2020-09-23 13:33:00| TechNewsWorld
Seven scamware apps found in Google Play and Apple's App Store corralled more than half a million dollars for their developers, according to Avast. The company discovered the malicious apps after a 12-year-old girl flagged a suspicious app promoted on a TikTok profile through its "Be Safe Online" project.
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