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10/04/2025

FRAUD, • You pay by bank transfer but don't receive goods or services? • Report it to Action Fraud & your bank ASAP • Your bank must refund you in full, less £100 excess. • If you have good reason to escalate things, write to them letting them know that you intend to contact the Financial Ombudsman if they don't resolve the issue within a week. • This will focus their attention as they must lodge £5k so the claim can be investigated.
Or you could use eWorthe!

Find out how to bring your complaint to us, and how we can help.

20/02/2025

A slightly more sophisticated look and feel to this fraud. But it's probs a full-time job for someone! Be careful.

16/02/2025

Someone is trying a fraud on eWorthe!!
I got this on messenger, worrying, but it's meant to be of course.
But ALWAYS check the link and here - .ly is Lybia

05/02/2025

UK Fraud Report. It's official, online shopping and auction fraud is topping the fraud charts with over 66,000 reported crimes.

Work by the co-operative bank on data from the NFIB* shows that fraud is the most prevalent crime in the UK, with online shopping and auction fraud accounting for nearly a quarter of all fraud reports in the UK!

The average loss is nearly £1,600 over almost 70,000 cases, a lot of money. And that's just reported crime. The following numbers show the breakdown by type, reported numbers and average value.

1. Online Shopping and Auctions, 66,787, £1,587
2. Other Advance Fee Frauds, 33,946, £2,171
3. Cheque, Plastic Card and Online Bank Accounts, 22,971, £3,578
4. Other Consumer Non-Investment Fraud, 21,994, £3,346
5. Other Financial Investment, 15,160, £19,453
6. Computer Software Service Fraud, 12,939, £765
7. Ticket Fraud, 10,143, £966
8. Dating Scam, 9,578 £10,775
9. Door-to-Door Sales and Bogus Tradesmen, 6,701, £5,865
10. Rental Fraud, 4,963, £1,954

That's why you should use eWorthe. Low fees and 100% protection against Marketplace, Ticketing and Rental fraud.

*Link to NFIB is on

Buy and sell in on-line marketplaces with complete security. 100% guaranteed.

06/12/2024

Parcel delivery fraud
According to Citizens Advice, malicious parcel delivery fraud is currently the most common type in the UK accounting for almost 50% of scams.

Citizens Advice said several common scams were 'quite sophisticated'. People targeted by parcel delivery scams receive official-looking texts or emails from criminals impersonating official organisations and delivery companies: -

- Asking people to reschedule or pay extra delivery fees or
- Providing false tracking information for items that never arrive after being purchased online.

Criminals are seeking payments, or worse, personal information and bank details, to enable even greater value fraud.

If you’re expecting a delivery and you receive a ‘missed parcel’ message: -

- Do not click the link and never give out personal bank details, delivery companies do not need them.
- Use the official websites of delivery companies to track your parcel.
- Forward the message to 7726, a free spam-reporting service, provided by phone operators.
- Report this to Action Fraud https://www.actionfraud.police.uk 0300 123 2040
- Delete the message.
- Next time use eWorthe to complete the transaction, non-deliveries are immediately refunded every time.

National Fraud & Cyber Crime Reporting Centre

20/11/2024

The latest data from the regulator shows how banks performed in 2023 in repaying APP scam losses. I got a fraud repayment from Nat West but it took a lot of effort and they are one of the better ones.

Don't leave it to chance. Use eWorthe for marketplace payments deposits with our 100% guarantee against APP fraud.

14/11/2024

I thought over a third of ads being fraudulent was bad, read on.

A tenant campaign group, Generation Rent, estimates over half of Facebook Marketplace rental listings appear to be scams. HALF!!

Scammers place fake listing adverts on sites such as Facebook and Gumtree that seem identical to genuine ads. They change the contact details pretending to be the agent or landlord. But after securing a deposit, they usually disappear.

This is the helicopter scam repurposed.

Action Fraud says that in 2022 the total losses were £9.4m, about £1,600 per victim, a truly shocking number.

https://www.lettingagenttoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2024/11/half-of-facebook-marketplace-rental-listings-are-scams-claim/