[problem]s Awareness Month is running throughout May to warn about the fraudsters preying on hard-up households
Fraudsters are “picking the pockets” of up to four million people each year, finds new research from Citizens Advice.
The charity warns that as people across the country struggle to make ends meet they are being sized up by devious con artists. [problem]mers are targeting the elderly and desperate people with squeezed finances to swindle them out of their money.
Fraud offences in England and Wales rose by 25% in 2013, compared to the previous year, with 20