Fearing a credit card scam, she checked with her bank and online shopping accounts but there was no sign of any suspicious activity.

The world's biggest credit card scam has left millions of customers exposed to fraud.

Of the 30 most popular pirate sites, 27 contained malware and 20 were running credit card scams.

Punters heading for strip joints were told to beware of bank and credit card scams.

This combined total accounted for 36 per cent of financial fraud losses and was the second most common type of payment fraud after debit and credit card scams.

The handsome stranger convinced her he was in love with her — before fleecing the 64-year-old of 160,000 in an investment scam.

Investment scams have nearly quadrupled during lockdown as scammers use ever more sophisticated methods to dupe ordinary savers into parting with their cash.

Common tricks include identity frauds, investment scams, left, and oldfashioned door-to-door cons.

The freedoms led to concerns that giving savers greater control of their cash would put them at risk of investment scams.

General investment scams are similar, you will be contacted about (or find online) a great opportunity to make some quick returns.

If a friend tells you he has been the victim of a phishing scam, what would it mean to you?

Instead, it's the old phishing scam.

On reflection, yet another phishing scam.

I also want to call on homestay and villa-rental websites to help their customers not to fall prey to ever more sophisticated fraud and phishing scams.

E-gold's store of value and large user base made it an early target of financial malware and phishing scams by increasingly organized criminal syndicates.

One scam involves a worker dropping a card and then swiping it on a skimming machine attached to their ankle as they pick it up.

A common scam involves getting a job at the company and hiring out your services to criminals who want to bypass the systems.

The scam involves using stolen photos from legitimate websites to create fake chalet listings that request payment by bank transfer.

The 'false billing' scam involves fraudsters contacting busy professionals and business owners with a request for payment of a service that the scammer knows to have been carried out.

The scam involves a computer dialing a large number of mobile phone numbers at random.

Investigators said the sophisticated scam was the first of its kind to involve call centre operators in another country.

Then there are more sophisticated scams, including the sale of homes without the owner's consent.

They are accused of being part of a gang which netted more than £1million with sophisticated scams.

Many people believe that only a fool falls for fraud, but that fails to recognise how sophisticated scams have become.

But you can still make the most of the sales if you can spot a scam from a saving.

A watchdog survey of 1,000 over-55s also found only two in five would know how to spot a scam.

So how can you spot the scams and, more importantly, protect yourself?

But a court heard officers spotted the scam as the van swerved across the road.

But a finance chief spotted the scam.

Last year, news broke of a gangster film being made entirely as a tax scam.

On the face of it, the series only made sense as some sort of tax scam.

The designer of a tax scam that took advantage of rules on charitable giving was in court yesterday as another of his schemes was thrust under the spotlight.

The names of as many as 825 wealthy individuals who concealed 176 million in a charity tax scam could remain secret forever, a tribunal was told yesterday.

The mansion of a convicted fraudster who was jailed for his role in a giant tax scam has gone on the market for 2.75 million.

He was finally caught out in 2010 when investigators uncovered his scam.

When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail.

Even if he had lost, the suspicions raised would have uncovered the scam.