Over £18m was stolen from Santander customers in the UK during the first three months of this year, according to the bank. In its quarterly report on scams, Santander said over £9m of the lost funds ...
Brits are being urged to double check websites before making online purchases ...
As the winter season kicks in, scammers are not missing the chance to target senior British residents with bogus "winter heating allowance" and "cost of living support" scam texts. The scam campaign ...
Scambaiting is when the target of a phone or online scam knowingly tries to waste a scammer's time. Scambaiting can frustrate scammers and prevent them from targeting others. A UK company has now ...
Big UK banks and big tech have joined together to commit to battling the ongoing fraud challenge which is impacting the financial services sector. Amazon, Barclays, BT, Google, HSBC, Lloyds, ...
A major financial crime case has made headlines recently after a Chinese woman involved in an international fraud scheme admitted to holding illegally obtained cryptocurrency worth billions. This case ...
For all of AI’s faults—like encouraging people to eat deadly mushrooms—sometimes it can be used to good ends. O2, the UK’s largest mobile network operator, has deployed a voice-based AI chatbot to ...
People either enjoy or don’t like calling their grandma if she tends to ramble, but there’s one situation in which a long-winded elderly lady is certainly useful: fooling scammers. UK mobile network ...
UK mobile carrier O2 has created Daisy, an AI grandmother designed to waste the time of phone scammers by keeping them on the line as long as possible. Anyone can report a scam call or message by ...