Labour AM Jeff Cuthbert is joining numerous organisations in promoting Scams Awareness Month #scamaware and this week’s focus on phone scams. The second most common type of scam in the UK, 29% of scams use phone calls or texts to target consumers. If you get a call out of the blue, be ‘scam aware’.
Jeff Cuthbert AM said,
“People across the Caerphilly constituency tell me about calls they have received asking for bank details. It is really important that people are scam aware.”
“May 2014 is Scams Awareness Month. It’s an opportunity for consumers and campaigners to learn and share then take that knowledge into the year-round fight against scams. It’s only through spotting the signs of scams and spreading the word as wide as possible that consumers can help to stop scams.”
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is and if you think something sounds a bit suspicious, take your time and don’t be pressured into quick decisions. For example, computer firms do not make unsolicited phone calls to help fix your computers.
Jeff is also reminding people not to suffer in silence. If you feel you have been a victim of a scam, report it. If you are at all worried you can also contact organisations like the Citizens Advice Bureau and trading standards or visit http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/.
