Tali Ramsey

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Are private parking firms playing fair?

6 days ago | which.co.uk | Tali Ramsey

The number of privately issued parking fines continues to rise, and many motorists feel they're being unfairly penalised. In the first half of 2023, car park management companies requested more than 5m vehicle-keeper details from the DVLA to issue fines to drivers. This went up again by more than 600,000 by the second half of the same year. Then, by the first half of 2024, well over 6m details had been requested. This year, private parking firms are on track to issue another record number of fines.
Property scams: what are they and how to avoid them

1 week ago | which.co.uk | Tali Ramsey

Fraudsters employ many tactics to con you out of your cash – almost £9m was lost in 2024 to rental fraud alone. According to insights shared by property company Sell House Fast, property-related fraud continues to target home buyers, sellers and renters. Below, we look at the most common property scams and explain how to spot and avoid them. Scammers pose as genuine buyers to steal the personal details of the property owner.
Tickets for popular music and sports events listed for inflated prices on Viagogo and Stubhub

2 weeks ago | which.co.uk | Tali Ramsey

Tickets for popular music and sports events are being touted on unauthorised resale sites, Viagogo and StubHub International, at inflated prices – even before the events have sold out. Which? found tickets listed for hugely inflated prices for a range of upcoming gigs, festivals and sports events, some of which explicitly prohibit tickets being sold through these secondary ticketing sites. Fans who buy from sellers using these sites risk paying higher prices and could be refused entry.
Scam alert: watch out for fake iCloud storage emails

2 weeks ago | which.co.uk | Tali Ramsey

Which? has seen six scam emails impersonating Apple’s iCloud service and using various claims to convince recipients to click on malicious links within the message. The fake emails look like they’re from iCloud and tell you that your storage is full, your payment method is outdated or that there's suspicious activity on your account. It's not the first time scammers have impersonated Apple, and it won't be the last.
Which? warns Gmail users to watch out for this convincing phishing email

3 weeks ago | which.co.uk | Tali Ramsey

Fraudsters have impersonated Google by 'spoofing' a Google email address and support page in a convincing and widespread scam. Spoofing is when scammers disguise themselves by masking their true identity with a genuine email address and phone number. This can make it difficult to spot a scam, unless you know what to look for and how to look for it. In this particular attack, the scammers also managed to bypass Google’s filters for scam and suspicious emails.
ID fraud is on the rise with criminals using AI to scale their attacks

4 weeks ago | which.co.uk | Tali Ramsey

Fraud prevention service, Cifas, reports that identity fraud was the most prevalent type of fraud reported last year. Cifas found that reports to the National Fraud Database (NFD), where member organisations record instances of fraud, increased by 13% in 2024, also making it the highest number on record. Of the 421,000 cases recorded on the database, almost 250,000 related to identity fraud. Identity theft and fraud can happen to anyone. Read on to learn what to do if you become a victim.
Shopping scam alert: Bonmarché scam ads and how to spot purchase scams

4 weeks ago | which.co.uk | Tali Ramsey

Purchase scams, when you pay for something you never receive, continue to lure victims in with tempting offers. In just the first three months of 2025, Santander customers lost almost £3.5m to a purchase scam. The bank also revealed that cases involving gig tickets exceeded 10% of all purchase scam claims. Some of these cases capitalised on the recent demand for Sabrina Carpenter and Coldplay tickets. Which?
Phishing, smishing and vishing: could you spot the signs of these common scams?

1 month ago | which.co.uk | Tali Ramsey

Phishing, smishing and vishing are scam messages and calls which target you for your personal and financial information and, according to research carried out by credit card company Aqua, one in six people in the UK have experienced a phishing scam. In a survey of 5,000 UK adults, those aged 18 to 24 were found to be the most likely to be the victim of an online scam, as over a quarter of this age group said that they have been caught out by an online scammer.
Are the Microsoft 'single-use code' emails legit?

1 month ago | which.co.uk | Tali Ramsey

Fraudsters are attempting to log into Microsoft users' accounts - here’s what to do if you receive one of these 'single-use code' emails. Emails from Microsoft containing a 6-digit code are leaving recipients puzzled. These emails are genuine, but scammers are ultimately behind it all. This likely is to be what is known as a brute force attack by fraudsters who are attempting to access accounts by trying multiple passwords, sometimes with the help of automated software to scale their attack.
Four new sneaky text message scams to watch out for

1 month ago | which.co.uk | Tali Ramsey

For some mobile users, barely a day goes by without receiving a dodgy text. These scams, known as 'smishing', are popular tools for fraudsters and some are sneakier than others. Virgin Media O2 blocked 168 million suspected fraudulent text messages over the past two years following reports by its customers to 7726, the scam text reporting service. Forwarding the details of a scam text to this number reports the scam to your mobile network and allows them to investigate and block fraudsters.