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Weekly Scam Article with the Daily Express

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This article is updated every week.

In March 2022, Louise Baxter (Head of the National Trading Standards Scams Team) teamed up with James Walker (CEO of Rightly) to produce a weekly scams article with the Daily Express. The newest article goes live on the Daily Express' website every Wednesday and you can find links to them all below:

16/03/2022 - Fake charities exploiting the crisis in Ukraine

23/03/2022 - Energy bill telephone scams exploiting the cost of living crisis

30/03/2022 - WhatsApp messaging scams posing as friends and family

06/04/2022 - Lottery scams in the post

13/04/2022 - Clairvoyant and psychic scams in the post

20/04/2022 - Urgent parcel scam text messages

27/04/2022 - Websites leaking your data

04/05/2022 - Holiday scam emails

11/05/2022 - Business scams

18/05/2022 - Cryptocurrency phone scams

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

Become a Friend 

Complete the Friends Against Scams training which aims to raise awareness of this type of fraud to help protect yourself and others against scams.
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A SCAMchampion is someone who has access to the Friends Against Scams resources in order to hold their own awareness sessions within their community or work place.

Become a SCAMchampion 

A SCAMchampion is someone who has access to the Friends Against Scams resources in order to hold their own awareness sessions within their community or work place.
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Do you want to help fight back against scams? Scam Marshals share their own experiences and send any scam mail that they receive to the team for investigations.

Become a Scam Marshal 

Do you want to help fight back against scams? Scam Marshals share their own experiences and send any scam mail that they receive to the team for investigations.

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