Scams

An app to help mobile users avoid nuisance calls and log complaints about dodgy firms has been launched.

Payday lender Wonga is investigating an "illegal and unauthorised access" to data which could affect around 245,000 customers in the UK customers and a further 25,000 in Poland.

MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis has been quick to discredit a "fake advert" that claimed he made money out of a risky form of investment known as 'binary trading'. Not only has Martin never invested in binary options, he would never recommend that others do so.

Online shoppers are being conned out of £100s after giving up bank details to authentic-looking emails claiming to be from Amazon. Protect yourself online by NEVER providing sensitive information in an email.

A parliamentary petition calling for an end to cold callers selling pensions and investments has been backed by almost 3,000 people so far - and MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis has urged as many people to sign it as possible.

Telecoms giant TalkTalk has been fined a record £400,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after a huge breach of its customers' data last year.

Cases of financial fraud have increased by more than 50% year-on-year with more than one million incidents reported in the first half of 2016, latest figures from Financial Fraud Action (FFA) have shown.

Victims of fraud are losing an average of £20,000 after falling prey to 'investment' scams involving non-existent stocks and shares, diamonds and fine wines, Citizens Advice has found.

After a spate of high-profile data breaches, including those at social networking sites LinkedIn and MySpace, which have affected hundreds of millions of accounts in total, it's important to know whether you've been hacked. Thankfully, there's a quick, free and easy way to see if you're at risk from a number of recent data breaches.

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.