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Don’t be a victim of a Valentine’s scam

10th Feb 2021 St Valentine’s day in 2021 will be very different. With the current lockdown in place, it is not possible to physically meet
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Ticket Scams & Fraud

2nd Feb 2021 Each year, stories emerge of sports fans paying astonishing amounts of money to buy tickets to see their team play in a
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Advice on 7 Common Postal Scams

2nd Feb 2021 A postal scam involves a letter delivered to your home address with the sole intention of obtaining money through deception or fraud.
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The IPS 2021 Manifesto

5th Jan 2021 IPS members want to stop unwanted cold calls. You also want to save wasted time, get on with daily life and achieve
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The Exploitation of COVID-19 by Cyber Criminals

2nd Mar 2021 More than a quarter of serious cyber-crime incidents responded to last year by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) were related
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Stopping Scams by Disrupting the Behaviour of Criminals

2 Mar 2021 This is a good news story from our friends in the National Trading Standards (NTS) Scams Team. They play a pro-active role
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HMRC & Amazon Scams – IPS Investigates

16th Feb 2021 In the IPS Manifesto for 2021 we promised “to go much further in driving significant change to help consumers” and that soon
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The Growth of DuckDuckGo, the privacy focused search engine

16th Feb 2021 The UK’s Information Commission Officer, Elizabeth Denham, recently revealed that she doesn’t have a Facebook or WhatsApp account and uses Signal as
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Data Privacy Day – 28th January 2021

2nd Feb 2021 Data Privacy day is held on the 28th January every year in the UK, US, Canada and Israel. It was started and
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Data Privacy Settings are Changing Fast in 2021

2nd Feb 2021 Most of you will get a first look at this article on an iPhone or an Android mobile device, powered by Apple
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How much should we worry about Fitbit’s acquisition by Google?

20th Jan 2021 Google completed its £1.5billion acquisition of Fitbit, the health and fitness brand, this month. Fitbit’s core smart watch helps users better understand
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The Incredible Cost of Cybercrime

20th Jan 2021 A recent report by McAfee reveals a $1trillion drag on the world economy, made up of financial losses of $945billion and $145billion
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Remove yourself from the Electoral Roll Open Register, so fewer companies can market to you

20th Jan 2021 The Electoral Register or Roll (ER) is a list of the names and addresses of all UK citizens who are registered to
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