All news on the topic: Scams

A former Georgian defense minister is under investigation for his alleged role in a sprawling international call center scam that duped European victims out of their savings, prosecutors said Friday.

Behind the head of the National Agency for Prospective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NAPP) Dmitriy Lee stands Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov.

The nurse's personality has "completely changed" after the social media user posing as Giovanni Pernice convinced her to pay out thousands of pounds a week for months

Brand ID is being described by mobile network provider O2 as an “anti-fraud filter” that displays caller information after it verifies the company making the call

The 17-year-old Swiftie, based in Livingston, West Lothian, hoped to get tickets for Taylor Swift's Saturday night show and was given a glimmer of hope when a friend told her someone she knew was selling tickets

Kasey Campion, 23, was scammed out of £150 and a holiday by four of her best friends who sneakily changed the dates of the flights and holiday without her knowledge

Kelly Knipes, 42, has been sleepwalking since the birth of her eldest son, and soon developed parasomnia, which sees her shop online while snoozing, with the habit costing her £3,000

The groom was left shocked after he discovered that his 'wife', going by the name Adinda Kanza, was actually a male fraudster - 12 days after they tied the knot

According to official data, a total of £28.7million was lost to courier fraud over the last year and City of London Police said on Tuesday that people in their 80s were the most likely to be targeted

Iris Jones, 84, was left thousands out of pocket after marrying toyboy Mohamed Ibrahim, 37, and has since set out to expose fraudsters trying to con women on dating sites

Natalie Foster, 42, was convinced by a scammer to upload money and 'trade' crypto after matching with him on Tinder. She ended up losing her £6,000 life savings

Sharon Forbes, 69, from Chippenham, Wiltshire, has been recording herself turning the tables on telephone scammers for the last 15 years - and has made hundreds of videos

Tourists travelling to Portugal have reported falling victim to a cruel taxi scam by unlicensed cabbies which lures in holidaymakers with the promise of cheap fares

Clarisa Murgia booked a B&B with sea view but when she checked in, she discovered the view was actually a poster hanging on the wall of the building on the other side of the road

Maria Chenery-Woods, 54, of Norfolk, used multiple identities to snap up gig tickets for stars including Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga, before re-selling them at highly inflated prices

Colin had taken part in investment trading before and believed a "lucrative" opportunity had landed in his lap after receiving an email from a company claiming to be an investment firm

Colin said his experience with the scammers really shook him and made him lose his confidence in his ability to use technology which he believed had some understanding in

Super-bright Elizabeth Ferguson had been a senior university manager before running a successful business - but a man posing as a lovelorn telecoms expert tricked her in just months into handing him her savings

Instagram's Worst Con Artist Belle Gibson's brother has spoken out about his sister's shocking lies, calling for the scammer to face prison time for her deception

The £500 gift card doesn’t actually exist and the email has nothing to do with Tesco - instead, scammers are using a fake survey to try and get access to your personal information

The MET police contacted 25,000 on Thursday, April 18 through text and email whose personal data may have been harvested by fraudsters after it shut down a major online scam hub this week

The Metropolitan Police told The Mirror it is investigating the identity of the person offering the bogus autism cure which stated children would receive an injection to the brain

A large number of arrests have been made around the UK over an online scamming website where 70,000 victims have allegedly been tricked into giving out personal details

The father-of-three wanted to build an extension on his current family home and this dream became a reality after he was left money by his late father

Janet Smith, 62, from Colchester, Essex, was bombarded with messages from a man who claimed to be Take That singer Gary Barlow - who turned out to be a scammer after money