Reports of frauds, deceptions and scams keep appearing, weekly even daily, on
major news channels and newspapers. Some of these frauds seem just too big and remote to be of immediate, direct relevance to our daily lives. But, we will eventually pay for the consequences and damages, in taxes, costs of goods and services, regulations, copy-cats etc.

I hope we can collect, in one thread, frauds and scams, reported or heard. We must become more aware and more educated to guard against frauds and scams
which impact upon the health, well being, and wealth of ourselves and our families.

It turns out that it is genuine, but a mistake!

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There is a scam call going around where you recieve a call and a voice mail says you are having a law suit filed against you by HMRC it then says press 1 to speak to the officer dealing with your case.

Do NOT press 1 this is a premium rate line and they use hundreds of different numbers the person your put through to then talks in a threatening manner saying you must pay £££££ to HMRC on your card to avoid the law suit.

Older people are the ones being targeted .
If you get the call just put the phone down blocking the number is of little use as stated they are using many numbers.

Let your older relatives know about this scam
More can be read about it on Internet just type in HMRC tax scam

I had an email this morning from Experian CreditExpert alerting me that

"Your email address and password are being illegally published and sold online."

This may well have been stolen recently, but it may be linked to the hack of this site earlier in the year - hopefully its the latter as it will be an out of date password!

Something to be aware of!

Certain HP Laptops had key-loggers pre-loaded into their driver software from new.

However, HP did release patches later to uninstall the key-loggers.

Check if yours is/was affected: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05827409

Watch out for ATM (Cash Point) card data skimming machines.

Look at the card slot very carefully. Here's what they might look like:



More at: https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBFYUFC?m=en-gb

Wifey had a text message yesterday:

"We have detected suspicious activity on your PayPal account and need you to confirm some details, please click the link below:

http://paypal-online.uk - PayPal"

You might like to click on the link above and see just what a scam web site looks like.

QN. Why would anyone want to enter their Username and Password for PayPal on it?

The site is NOT a SECURE SITE. It's URL is 'http://....' and NOT 'https://....'

I get about 10 scam e-mails a week.

I never click on an attachment even if I am expecting one from Premium bonds or my bank.

My advice to anyone is to always go to the site direct and then open up any links, even then of course double checking the site is genuine.

Just in case you ever need to have to do it:

https://www.howtogeek.com/362660/how-to-file-a-chargeback-on-a-credit-card-purchase-to-get-your-money-back/

Just got a message on my screen apparently from Norton stating that my computer was infected with 5 viruses and asked me to proceed to remove. The page looked very like Norton with 3 windows superimposed. I like the idiot I am, pressed proceed and it took me to what reportedly looked like a windows 10 download page. It asked me to download a programme to remove the viruses. Fortunately I noted the internet address which certainly was not Windows and shut all pages down. Up to that point everything looked genuine.

I then opened Norton,(which said all was well) updated it and did a full scan. All was fine according to Norton, hopefully a narrow escape for me! H

Can't be too careful H, looks like you nearly got caught out. Thanks for the info as well