It’s Fraud Week. That may not engender quite the same excitement as, I don’t know, Finals Week at Wimbledon or Movie Week on Strictly, but it’s still a big deal. Fraud Week is an international even...

Facebook may not pay as much tax in the UK as some think it should do. It may have allowed Cambridge Analytica to access the data of millions of its users without their express permission. And it m...

As you may know, I’m passionate about preventing scams of any kind, but particularly prize promotions scams, and for the last couple of years I’ve been a member of the Fraud Women’s Network (I blog...

This is a text scam which is apparently in circulation at the moment and the prize is an iPhone XS or sometimes an iPhone XS Max. That makes it something of a classic scam, because iPhones frequent...

At Prizeology we know what makes a good prize. We know that holidays are always very popular, the latest technology always goes down well, and giving away a lot of vouchers can be very successful. ...

When I warn loyal readers of this blog about specific scams they tend to be on Facebook or sometimes WhatsApp, but this time I’m going to tell you about a particularly pernicious scam that’s pull...

I’m sure you’d agree, they came across as a lovely couple. In fact, my immediate thought was that it couldn’t happen to nicer people. I’m talking about Frances and Patrick Connolly from Northern ...

I’ve always advised that one of the checks you can do to determine whether a website is genuine – and not put up by scammers whose sole intention is to steal your private information or your actual...

Who wouldn’t want the chance to win £85 worth of Asda vouchers in the run-up to Christmas? After all, £85 would make a reasonable dent in anyone’s Christmas shopping bill and, as Asda’s current slo...