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Pension fraud is on the rise. How do we protect our family?
Criminals are increasingly targeting older people and those approaching retirement to steal their life savings. Action Fraud in the UK has reported a shocking £17.5 million lost to pension scams in 2024 alone — that’s around £48,000 stolen every single day. On average, victims lost £33,848 each. To help keep your older relatives and friends […]
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Latest scams, pushy callers and other threats to vulnerable people
While not wanting this to be a depressing read, we do want to highlight the latest ways that nefarious people are trying to relieve people – especially older people – of their money and goods. The car park ticket robbery. This has been happening a lot around here, again and again in the same car […]
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Protecting older people from tax scams
Today’s scammers try to take on any persona possible to relieve the vulnerable of the contents of the bank accounts, or even their savings and investments. A particular favourite at the moment seems to be fake messages from the tax office, demanding payments or even offering to help with refunds from HMRC. What sort of […]
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