BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5

Passionate about empowering & Safeguarding citizens. Helping combat Scams, Fraud, ID theft & Fin Crime. #ScamMarshall (Views my own 🖐)

[BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5 @BeFraudAware]

Be the human anti-virus offline.
☕️ Talk to a few over a brew
🍖 De-risk it over brisket
🍪 Educate rookies over cookies
🥃 Explain a scam over a dram
Help share to #BeFraudAware 🖐

[Stefanie Hallgren, CFE @StefanieatACFE]

2 DAYS until @TheACFE's #FraudWeek!

Have you signed your group up to be a Supporting Organization yet? You still have time! It's free to do, and it means your group is committing time next week to educate about #fraud, however you choose!

https://t.co/FtmvAD5bYL

[BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5 @BeFraudAware]

Where tax avoiding brogues tread, criminal boots follow. #FinancialCrime

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Lord Bamford owes £500,000,000 to HMRC he has retired from the House of Lords and fled.

He expects his debt just like Michelle Mone's £232,000,000 debt to be written off.

We must recover every penny from these thieves, and toss them in jail.

[Report Fraud @reportfrauduk]

🚨 Email and social media hacking are the most common forms of cyber crime reported in the UK.

ℹ️ Double your defences against cyber criminals by enabling 2-step verification (2SV).

Find out more: https://t.co/YZrZahQghf

#TurnOn2SV

[Jo Platt @JoPlattLeigh]

She's only gone and done it!

Huge congratulations to Keely Hodgkinson 🌟on being named Sports Personality of the Year.

A big congrats also go out to Keely's coaches Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadow who won BBC Coaches of the Year. A great achievement for our borough 🎉🎉🎉

[BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5 @BeFraudAware]

#IDtheft - All set for a #HoHoHo busy day for "Santa" gifting our Nanna knitted toys to less advantaged young ones,.... with some sensory lighting & a quiet "grotto" for our non verbal and neuro-divergent little visitors.

Nearly 50k knitted items for vulnerable families. 🫶🎅

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#BeFraudAware 👊😎🔎

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

When I talk about scams, I oft get replies like "the TV licence is a scam too" or "not putting up income tax thresholds is a scam" & more. I get this is venting, but it risks inuring people to the danger of actual scams.

Scams and fraud make up 40% of UK crime Its under-policed, under-resourced, under-reported and under-regulated. We need that to change. Scams don't just destroy peoples finances, they have huge impacts on mental health and self-esteem.

Scams are primarily from dangerous organised criminal gangs, extra-territorially using sophisticated psychological techniques to lie, manipulate people, and steal with little repercussion.

Dismissing that by equating it to legal policy decisions even those you strongly disagree with, draws attention away from the real need in our society to crack down on these criminals.

[BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5 @BeFraudAware]

A very common and aggressive debt collection model used by local councils, prohibited in the private sector under treating customers fairly regulation. #BadHumans. Being!

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Miss one Council Tax monthly payment and within 3wks they can make you pay for the whole year! My response after listening to a case study who’s finances were wrecked by this.

Watch the full @itvMLshow Council Tax cost cutting special on ITVX: https://t.co/EUPmMhnBJj

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Miss one Council Tax monthly payment and within 3wks they can make you pay for the whole year! My response after listening to a case study who’s finances were wrecked by this.

Watch the full @itvMLshow Council Tax cost cutting special on ITVX: https://t.co/EUPmMhnBJj

[BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5 @BeFraudAware]

Shining your light on young peoples dark paths brighten all our paths! #GoodHumans. Being!
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[Jo Platt @JoPlattLeigh]

I am thrilled to back the Government’s new National Youth Strategy🎉

This initiative is all about breaking down barriers and opening up real opportunities for young people across the country – ensuring all young people get the support they need to succeed.

[Jo Platt @JoPlattLeigh]

I am thrilled to back the Government’s new National Youth Strategy🎉

This initiative is all about breaking down barriers and opening up real opportunities for young people across the country – ensuring all young people get the support they need to succeed.

[Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU) @DCPCU_tweets]

A man has been sentenced to over six years imprisonment at Manchester Crown Court for defrauding vulnerable customers of over £950,000.

The sentencing follows investigation and arrest by the #DCPCU.

Read in full: https://t.co/Iup1MxU6zW.

#DCPCU #Fraud #Justice

[BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5 @BeFraudAware]

Grateful for the sun shining on our community day at the Spinners heritage Mill. Our tea room ready to cater the kids halloween party, candy bags prepped, knitted toy gifts, cinema and activities galore, all supporting children with cancer. 🫂💜🥳
#WorkingTogetherAsOne 🫶

[BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5 @BeFraudAware]

@JoPlattLeigh As a very active voice for the community you will be a valuable asset Jo 👊😎

[Paul A Costello @PaulACostello1]

Yet again @LeighFilm in Belfast putting Leigh on the map for film delivery receiving national recognition @WiganCouncil

[cherie 🌿 @cherielomein]

Hey @YouTube @YouTubeCreators , Partnered creator here! Can someone explain to me what about this video is so sexual it needed to be age restricted? Didn’t know zipping my zipper was a sexually gratifying act. Or leaning out of frame for that matter.

https://t.co/pG3Uxs8ulf

[BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5 @BeFraudAware]

#Taken - not everyone can go full Liam Neeson but just being the human antivirus offline is so important. Spreading awareness IS the patch for the criminals strapline "you can't patch stupid."
#TalkAndShare #BeFraudAware

[Dave Kennedy @HackingDave]

My son did something amazing today. He got the fake email "We've hacked your computer and spied on you doing bad stuff and browsing bad sites. Send us bitcoin and tell no-one. ".

His heart dropped, and his first instinct was to call me and tell me what happened and ask for help.

It was obviously fake, and he didn't do anything wrong, but my heart was filled that his first reaction was to call me and to tell me something happened and for me to help.

Communicate to your kids, I have emphasized multiple times with my kids that no matter what situation you are in, especially on cyber - let me know and the bad folks don't want a pissed off HackingDave Dad on them and I'm always there for them.

Just got this text as typing:

[BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5 @BeFraudAware]

Innovative thinking on #FinCrimeCompliance #ContextIsEverything

[Experian Business UK @ExperianB2B_UK]

Next month, our Director of Product Consultancy Mark Scott will be sharing his top recommendations for reducing the cost and complexity of #FinCrime compliance.

Be sure to join us on Wednesday 11 September: https://t.co/1zkWvbMVCx

[BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5 @BeFraudAware]

@greybrow53 Metaverse if the shoe fits 😂 Huge demand for digital repairs on PDF boots.

[BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5 @BeFraudAware]

#Xpensive - X is facing yet another legal case in the shape of a breach of contract claim from IT infrastructure provider Wiwynn over non-payment for $120 million in components it procured for the Elon Musk-owned biz.
https://t.co/5Bynqqa1gU

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@RockLovesMe2 🤘😎🤘

[BeFraudAware 🖐 #Take5 @BeFraudAware]

#BeFraudAware for ANY unsolicited message via any channel. Ignore the urgency and if you may be expecting a package, letter or have an account, contact them independently. #DontClickTheLink 👊😎

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Latest fraud - all seems very real except interruption is misspelt and of course the large red button (always a bad sign) leads to a thief’s website. Delete unclicked if you get it. Attached is just an image.