Ofcom advises people not to trust the caller ID display on their phone when trying to avoid scams. It also instructs people not the give out personal information in response to an incoming call ...

Common types of phone scam Impersonation scams: Someone calls you out of the blue claiming to be from your bank's fraud department. They inform you that your account has been compromised and encourage ...

As phone and text scams are not going away anytime soon, Amanda Finch, chief executive of professional body, Chartered Institute of Information Security, says: "There's always more that telecoms ...

Apparently, while reports of phone fraud are known to rise during the summer, they tend to peak highest during the time after the winter holidays. Specifically from January to March, which saw ...

Phone ‘sim farms’ set to be banned in major UK scam crackdown Home Office says recent data showed fraud now accounts for more than 40 per cent of all reported crime in England and Wales ...

Canadian national lottery scam hits the UK Elderly targeted by 'you've won millions, honest' phone swindle Written by Jo Best, Contributor Dec. 3, 2003, 4:15 a.m. PT ...

Around 70,000 people in the UK have been called as part of the country's biggest ever phone fraud, which has now been brought down by the police. Crooks have been ringing unsuspecting residents ...

HMRC, the authority in charge of taxes in the UK, said criminals were turning to more traditional scams such as cold calling publicly available phone numbers such as landlines.

Phone companies have agreed to block the majority of internet phone calls made from abroad where it looks as though the call is coming from a UK number. This so-called "number spoofing" tactic is ...