I have just read a shocking article on the Telegraph website that says 1 in 10 Britons have been a victim of some kind of scam. It is claimed that up to 3.2 million british people have fallen for these scams either by phone, email or letter.
It is unbelievable that there are so many people out there who try to extract money from innocent people (and seem to succeed) it is more unbelievable that so many people are still falling for these tricks!
Most of these scams offer an expensive prize or large sums of money where a small ‘administration fee’ is needed first to ‘release’ the winnings. However you are likely to never see your money again or more recently cheques have been sent which have proved to be fakes. It has been discovered that a lot of the money the fraudsters gain from these illegal methods is used for funding drug trafficking, particularly in parts of Africa.
You can visit the Metropolitan Police website for more information of these mass fraud attempts or read the rest of the article here
Remember - you can’t get something for nothing. If it sounds too goods to be true, it’s probably not!
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