Telephone & Mail Scams...
Below are our articles on the subject of Telephone & Mail Scams. If you can't see what you are looking for our other categories are displayed on the left under 'Our Quick Links'...
Auto-Dialling Scam
In 2004 Ireland was forced to block calls to 13 countries because customers ran up huge bills connecting to the Internet. How did that happen? It was all because of an...
Card Not Present Fraud
In these days of Internet and telephone shopping, we often buy goods on our credit cards without the merchant being able to see the card. That makes it a market open for...
Chain Mail Scam
The chain mail scam quite possibly began not long after the advent of the postal system. These days, like so many other frauds, it's migrated to the computer, where it...
Delivery Service Scam
Christmas shoppers need to be aware of the latest postal and phone scam which makes the most of the season of goodwill, and the fact that consumers are ordering...
Dialling Premium Rate Phone Lines to Claim Non-Existent Prizes
Have you ever had this happen? You're busy with something when the phone rings. Dropping what you're doing, you answer it, only to find a...
Free Mobile Phone Scam
The scammers are after your money, and they keep coming up with creative ways to try and get their hands on it. No sooner is one scam uncovered than they've moved on to...
Mobile Phone Scams
These days almost everyone carries a mobile phone, and it's become a vital part of our communication arsenal to keep us in touch when we're on the move. We tend to think...
Mobile Phone Scams: More Common Than PC Scams
Most reasonably technology-savvy consumers are well aware of the latest online scams and wouldn’t dream of clicking on a link in an email or...
Price Fixing Scams: What's Being Done to Protect Consumers?
It could at last be time for the big consumer fight back, as it seems that the Office of fair Trading (OFT) are cracking down on bogus price...
Psychic Scam
We'd all like to know the future and be able to tell what's going to happen to us. But, in spite of what Nostradamus predicts, or what others will tell you, no one has...
Quiz Show Fraud
For as long as there have been quiz shows on television, there has been fraud. Sometimes it's actively condoned by the producers, at other times they've been cheated by...
Telephone Scam: 070
In a variant on the lottery scam thieves have been persuading people to part with personal banking information by using 070 numbers.
The 070 numbers were introduced...
The #90 and other Mobile Phone Scams
We've mentioned the 0906 mobile phone scam in a previous article, and there are a few more mobile phone scams going around recently which have been widely reported....
Winter Related Doorstep Scams and What to Avoid
When the weather gets cold it’s optimum time for household related things to start going wrong. Unscrupulous traders will often try and take...
