You’re familiar with the Nigerian scam, aren’t you? You get an email – in days gone by it was a letter – which explains that the sender has a large sum of money stuck in a bank in Nigeria, or Sierr...

Scam alert: Dyson loyalty programme A member of the public recently received an email from Dyson, giving them the chance enter a prize promotion. The email came from a genuine-sounding email add...

Anyone out there who likes chocolate? Thought so. Anyone out there out who would like to win a hamper stuffed full of slabs of Dairy Milk, piles of Chocolate Buttons and handfuls of Curly Wurlys? Y...

If you live in Scotland – and even if you live elsewhere in the UK – you need to take care. I’m not talking about the Covid-19 threat, although of course we should all pay attention to the governme...

Business Against Scams launched You may recall that yours truly is a Scambassador, specially charged with using my influence (oh yes!) to raise the profile of prize promotions scams at a local a...

Scam alert: Coronavirus. These are difficult times for all of us, but they are being made even more difficult by scammers who are callously exploiting both the situation we all find ourselves in an...

Scam alert: Honda giveaway! This Honda scooter giveaway is not a scam I’m ever going to fall for. I’m not being arrogant or smug. We’re all potentially vulnerable to scams and I am no exception, bu...

In this blog I’d like to draw your attention to a recent story in the Yorkshire Post. The paper reports that in January York Magistrate’s Court fined a company £150,000 and ordered it to pay £10,00...

Scam alert: Facebook Tesco voucher Here’s a quiz question for you: what year was Tesco founded? Admittedly it wasn’t a fact that I had at my fingertips, but according to Wikipedia the name Tesco...