Police

If you get a text message from the Metropolitan Police in the next 48 hours asking for help fighting fraud, don't ignore it. The organisation is sending text messages to 70,000 people who may have been targeted by fraudsters using a sophisticated online tool to spoof the phone numbers of legitimate companies such as banks. 

The 15p charge for calling the police's non-emergency 101 number will be scrapped from April 2020. 

Anyone planning to vote in the local elections on 5 May must register to do so by midnight tonight.

Elderly people are being targeted by a telephone scam that the police say in some cases involves a fraudster allegedly pretending to be MoneySavingExpert's Martin Lewis. We NEVER make cold calls asking for your financial information – here's what's happened and what to watch out for.

Fraudsters conned British holidaymakers out of £2.2 million last year through a series of internet-based scams and deceptions, a report shows today.

The City of London Police has today said it will not carry out a criminal investigation into Wonga's debt collection practices after it was revealed last year that the payday lender used letters from bogus law firms to pressure customers into paying debts.

Consumers are being warned to never give out their Pin after a fresh wave of reports about a "courier scam", which criminals have used to steal millions of pounds from victims in recent years.

Police have charged seven people in connection with the collapse of currency firm Crown Currency Exchange.

Police and Royal Mail are investigating a pornography scam after multiple reports on our forum of households being sent unsolicited hardcore DVDs.

Every taxpayer is to receive a personal statement spelling out what the Government is spending their tax on.