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Resources and Materials

In this section, you will find a range of resources and additional materials to help you spread scams prevention messaging, such as leaflets, posters and social media content. These include a Scams Guide Leaflet and a Doorstep Crime Leaflet, that are both available in a range of different languages, to help you.

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Awareness

Become a Friend Against Scams by learning how to spot a scam and protect your friends, family and neighbours from becoming a victim by completing a short awareness session.  

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Are you or your loved ones being targeted by scams? Take a look at this guide on some practical things you can do to prevent criminals contacting you.

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Initiative

A Scam Marshal is any resident in the UK who has been targeted by a scam and now wants to fight back and take a stand against scams.

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What more can you do?

 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 workspace.

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Businesses

Businesses Against Scams has been set up by the National Trading Standards Scams Team and includes a number of resources that companies can share with their employees.

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A scams awareness guide that has been created in an Easy Read version.

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This sticker can be printed off and stuck on your front door to deter traders knocking on your door. 

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Scams Guide Leaflet


This guide has been designed by the National Trading Standards Scams Team as a quick reference point for scams in general, what they are, the tactics criminals use to target their potential victims and how to report these crimes. 

The Scams Guide is available in 11 different languages, please choose the language you require below: 

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Doorstep Crime Awareness Leaflet


This leaflet was designed by the National Trading Standards Scams Team to help raise awareness of doorstep crime. It includes the tactics used by doorstep criminals and how to report them to the right authorities. 

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This guide is available in 14 different languages, please select the language you require.

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cover - English
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cover - Welsh
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cover - Arabic
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cover - Bengali
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cover - Simplified chinese
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cover - Hindi
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cover - Gujarati
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cover - Portuguese
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cover - Polish
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cover - Urdu
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cover - Punjabi
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cover - romanian
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cover - Spannish
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cover - Greek