Mum faces being made homeless after being conned out of £2,250 in Gumtree flat rental scam 

Mother-of-four, 46, faces being made homeless after being conned out of £2,250 in Gumtree flat rental scam Shirley Jones, 46, arranged to move into a three-bedroom home & paid £2,250 She later discovered the ‘landlord’ was a tenant and had no right offering it to her West Midlands Police are investigating but the mum of … Read more

Mum faces being made homeless after being conned out of £2,250 in Gumtree flat rental scam 

Mother-of-four, 46, faces being made homeless after being conned out of £2,250 in Gumtree flat rental scam Shirley Jones, 46, arranged to move into a three-bedroom home & paid £2,250 She later discovered the ‘landlord’ was a tenant and had no right offering it to her West Midlands Police are investigating but the mum of … Read more

Financier ‘conned leading anti-apartheid activist who became Commonwealth diplomat out of £1.1m’

Financier, 62, conned leading anti-apartheid activist who became Commonwealth diplomat out of £1.1m by pretending that he would invest it in property, court hears Maurice Miskelly allegedly swindled the fortune from activist Patsy Robertson Ms Robertson held top roles for the Commonwealth between 1983 and 1994 She was Director of Information for the Secretariat and an … Read more

ASK TONY: I was conned out of £12,500 by Bitcoin boiler-room scam 

You must get plenty of letters about older people being scammed out of their money by shysters. Unfortunately, I am a stupid woman who has been conned out of £12,500. Only when I asked my husband for more money did the scam, which started with a phone call, come to light.  The first £1,000 was … Read more

ASK TONY: I was conned out of my cash by Bitcoin boiler-room scam 

You must get plenty of letters about older people being scammed out of their money by shysters. Unfortunately, I am a stupid woman who has been conned out of £12,500. Only when I asked my husband for more money did the scam, which started with a phone call, come to light.  The first £1,000 was … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Fraudsters’ scams conned Britons out of over £200m

Just over a third of the total amount lost to scams where people were tricked into transferring money to a fraudster was returned to customers in the first half of 2020, according to figures from a trade association. A total of £207.8million was lost to authorised push payment (APP) scams between January and June 2020, … Read more