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PIMFA Launches Fraud Prevention Guide As Part Of Campaign To Protect Consumers From Online Fraud Date
07/05/2021
PIMFA, the trade association for wealth management, investment services and the investment and financial advice industry, has launched a guide to online fraud prevention for member firms as part of its campaign to make the internet safer for consumers.
The guide for firms provides information on the most common examples of fraud that PIMFA has identified in the past few years, including impersonation fraud, retail bond fraud, social media fraud and cloned websites. It also provides examples of real-life situations in which a firm or its clients were the victims of fraud, as well as advice on best practice to help prevent fraudsters from gaining access to clients.
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Consumer champions lobby govt for tougher online protection
By Michael Klimes 7
th May 2021 9:33 am
Seventeen of the most influential consumer groups have called on the government to crack down on internet scams.
They urge the government to include online scams in its proposed Online Safety Bill in a joint letter to the Home Secretary and Digital Secretary.
The organisations want consumers to be better protected against the financial and emotional harm caused by these crimes.
Scams have escalated in the past 12 months as Action Fraud figures showed £1.7bn was reportedly lost to scams in the last year.
Many criminals have shifted their activity online as Action Fraud estimates that in the year to June 2020, 85% of all fraud was cyber-enabled.
Bid to make Facebook and Amazon pay legal price for online scams as Scots fraud soars during lockdown
Bid to make Facebook and Amazon pay legal price for online scams as Scots fraud soars during lockdown A coalition of organisations is calling on ministers to bring in new laws to make online platforms such as Facebook and Amazon legally responsible for online scams - as it emerged cases of fraud in Scotland have soared during the pandemic. The Dunfermline-based Carnegie UK Trust is one of 17 organisations who are warning that a failure to make online platforms such as Facebook and Amazon directly responsible for any scam content on their site risks the UK failing in its ambition to be the safest place in the world to be online.