Friday 23 November may be Black Friday 2018, but the date is also significant – in fact, far more significant – for being the end of the week in which Friends Against Scams is celebrating its secon...

What would you say if I told you how to get free tickets from Easyjet and Ryanair? You’d jump at the chance, wouldn’t you? Especially if I explained that all you have to do is go to the airlines’ w...

Costa Coffee has been in the business pages of the papers recently, because Whitbread has sold the café chain to Coca-Cola, but what I’d like to draw your attention to is a Costa scam which is curr...

There are all sorts of lists I wouldn’t mind my name turning up on. Top prize promotion agencies? Naturally I like to think Prizeology is already on that. Prize draw scams experts? Well, if I’m not...

Regular readers will know I’m not usually one to blow my own trumpet (OK, I may toot a borrowed cornet occasionally), but the other day I was quoted in the Telegraph. You can read the piece here – ...

I can’t get Take That’s ‘A Million Love Songs Later’ out of my head. That’s because I’ve been thinking about the new One Million Friends Against Scams initiative. OK, the campaign name isn’t an exa...

If I make it to 93 – and my grandmother turns 97 this year, so you never know, maybe I will – I shall definitely celebrate, but I’m not a multinational sports shoe manufacturer. What I mean is, lar...

This post is a slight departure for me, but I wanted to draw your attention to an organisation I’m a member of called the Fraud Women’s Network. No doubt you can work out a certain amount about it ...

At this time of year, who doesn’t want to escape to the sun and the opportunity to win a holiday in Bali is definitely tempting. It might be the rainy season there right now, but the temperature st...