One in seven people ‘have lost money to fraud in past year’
Some 14% of people surveyed in February said they had lost money to fraud in the past 12 months, financial insights company TransUnion found.
New £300 winter fuel payment triggers wave of scam texts - 'contact bank immediately'
Pensioners have been warned of a surge in scam texts targeting older people. Fraudsters are exploiting confusion around the newly expanded winter fuel payment scheme, which will see millions more pensioners across England and Wales receive up to £300 this year.
Avoiding scams has become a feature of life, so much so that that the second headline is a reminder that political claims have to be treated as an offshoot of the same sorry state of affairs. We don't trust political promises because past experience tells us we shouldn't, much like the dodgy phone calls, emails or text messages.
Government is so ludicrously expensive that we know a substantial part of tax revenue is wasted, and what is that waste if it isn't tax revenue ending up in pockets we would never approve of? Yet this loss isn't one where we can ignore the phone calls or delete the texts and emails. The wasters just take the money.
2 comments:
When you see some of the things people fall for, I’m surprised it’s only 14%
Peter - it's no surprise that we receive so many scam calls though, must be remarkably profitable even though it seems so obvious that they are scams.
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