Are you an armchair detective? From bizarre love scams to high-speed car chases to risky prison breaks and more, the Very Local original series “Crimes, Cons & Capers” explores some of the wildest, headline-grabbing crimes and far-fetched escapades from across the country. In each episode, legal and criminal justice experts…
Are you an armchair detective? From bizarre love scams to high-speed car chases to risky prison breaks and more, the Very Local original series “Crimes, Cons & Capers” explores some of the wildest, headline-grabbing crimes and far-fetched escapades from across the country. In each episode, legal and criminal justice experts…
Are you an armchair detective? From bizarre love scams to high-speed car chases to risky prison breaks and more, the Very Local original series “Crimes, Cons & Capers” explores some of the wildest, headline-grabbing crimes and far-fetched escapades from across the country. In each episode, legal and criminal justice experts…
Recently, consumer protection magazine Which? identified some of the most convincing scams of 2023. These scams all have one thing in common – they insidiously take advantage of people’s cognitive biases and psychological blind spots. They included “pig butchering” a way of fattening up victims with affection, the missing person scam…
Online fraud is today’s most common crime. Victims are often told they are foolish for falling for it, but fraudsters use psychological mechanisms to infiltrate the defences of their targets, regardless of how intelligent they are. So it’s important to keep up with the latest scams and understand how they…
Which? said scammers are continuing to thrive in 2023 (PA Archive) Which? magazine has completed an investigation into the most convincing scams of 2023 thus far, in hopes of informing consumers so that they can better protect themselves. It comes shortly after the Government revealed its three-year strategy to tackle…
Dating cons known as “pig butchering”, fake missing person appeals and dodgy apps are among the most widely used and convincing scams in circulation this year, according to Britain’s leading consumer watchdog. Pig butchering – so-called by fraudsters because they “fatten up” the victim by forming a romantic connection before…
He would text things like I love you. Nothing will stop me from making you happy. He’s talking in this dutch, sexy accent. I really had no idea the amount of debt that I was going to rack up when true love turns to true crime, she made this assumption…
He would text things like I love you. Nothing will stop me from making you happy. He’s talking in this dutch, sexy accent. I really had no idea the amount of debt that I was going to rack up when true love turns to true crime, she made this assumption…
He would text things like I love you. Nothing will stop me from making you happy. He’s talking in this dutch, sexy accent. I really had no idea the amount of debt that I was going to rack up when true love turns to true crime, she made this assumption…
