Phone Scams

UK based building society Nationwide is warning customers about fraudulent text messages that use the company’s name.

Scammers posing as law-enforcement officers are cold-calling people and tricking them into paying over the phone to resolve supposedly outstanding warrants. The scammers warn victims that, if they don’t pay the requested fee, police may come to their home and arrest them.

In recent years, reloadable debit card phone scams have become more and more common, especially in the United States. In this scam, criminals try to trick victims into purchasing or reloading a pre-paid debit card such as a Green Dot card and then calling them back and providing card details

Tech support phone scams have now been targeting Internet users around the world for a number of years. Despite widespread publicity about these scams, they continue to gain new victims every day.

Brief Analysis: America’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning about yet another tactic being used by phone scammers. Rather than threaten victims…

Australians are receiving automated phone messages purporting to be from the tax office that claim they will be arrested for tax evasion and tax avoidance if they do not call a specified ‘hotline’ number.

Scammers pretending to be government taxation officials continue to target residents in several countries including the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia. Typically,…

Fraud prevention organisation Financial Fraud Action UK is warning consumers about a new take on the traditional tech-support phone scam. The scammers cold call…

Australian residents have been receiving scam phone calls in which they are told that the government owes them a substantial sum of money, usually several thousand dollars.