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Caversham Computers has received the following report from Action Fraud, which warns of a rise of fraud relating on online shopping in the run up to Christmas.

• Action Fraud Christmas shopping reports rise by over a quarter in 2016
• 15,423 people reported being a victim of shopping fraud
• Online auction fraud accounted for 65% of reports
• Victims reported losing over £16 million in total, 45% more than the year before
• Men aged 20-29 most commonly fall victim

This Christmas the City of London Police, who run Action Fraud, and supported by police forces across the country, are launching a campaign to help prevent people from becoming victims of shopping and auction fraud, as well as other types of fraud which people fall victim to during the seasonal period. From today and throughout the Christmas period, the City of London Police...

A new report claims that customers of BT’s broadband and phone services are being targeted by fraudsters based in India. The criminals will often call and pretend to act as official customer support agents in order to hijack your PC / steal money, although this crime is by no means unique to BT. According to The Register and a long running thread on BT’s community forum, many of the calls will follow the now all too familiar tactic of claiming that a customer has Malware (malicious software) on their computer. After that the individual is frequently asked to install some third-party software or make a change on their computer in order to tackle the problem via remote access, which is an obvious sign of the scam (i.e. they’re hijacking your computer). In many of these cases the...