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There has been another sad story of a pensioner in Whitby being conned by theives claiming to be from the ‘Water Board’ to gain entry into a property and then steal cash. Other incidents have been reported in York and Thirsk and they target the vulnerable of the community. How can you help? 1. If …

I read this story a couple of days ago on the BBC website (click here) that iPhone and Android owners were being warned to watch out for rogue apps, doing a little more digging I was actually quite shocked to learn from Richard Eaton of Appware that Android apps aren’t checked at all before being made …

A story that caught my eye this week was the conviction of two con artists that had been targeting Argos and B & Q with a scam involving an electronic scanner and till rolls, forged product labels with catalogue numbers and a received stamp. A member of staff in the Middlesbrough store had become suspicious …

You can’t have failed to have seen the news this week about rogue trader Kweku Adoboli and probably had the thought ‘how on earth can that happen?’ According to various sources the 31 one year old handed himself in, which means even at the end UBS wasn’t aware that Kweku had managed to lose over …

I am always slightly bemused by the feedback from concert sellers that they don’t send out tickets to people until the last minute to prevent people copying and ending up with a high quantity of fakes on the market. Instead what has happened is a multimillion pound fraud industry has arisen surrounding the sale of concert …

My uncle called me yesterday, he’d had a called from someone claiming they were from Microsoft and were letting him know he had errors on his computer, my heart sank, this is the uncle I’d ask to stop forwarding spoof emails from people claiming that if you open an email with the subject ‘Olympic Torch’ …