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Empowering people to 
take a stand against scams


Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones from scams and help to raise awareness throughout your community.


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Help protect yourself and others against scams by completing our Friends Against Scams training.

What does it mean to become a Friend Against Scams?

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If you would like to become a Friend Against Scams, you can complete the online awareness session. Otherwise, come and join one of our face to face awareness sessions.

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Complete the Friends Against Scams online training which aims to raise awareness of this type of fraud to help protect yourself and others against scams.

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This resource has been designed to assist professionals and practitioners who will be interacting with victims of scams.

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How to protect against scams

Help protect yourself and others against scams by completing our Friends Against Scams training.

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Been scammed? Get help

Have you been scammed, find out how to report a scam and get advice.

Protect your Business or Organisation Against Scams


Become a Friends Against Scams organisation or register for access to our library of resources to help protect your employees from scams.


How to protect your business

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Our Partners


The Friends Against Scams team are delighted to be working with the following organisations in protecting people against scams.

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Guinness
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CAS
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Halifax
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