Rocio Concha, Which? Director of Policy and Advocacy, said: “Which? led the campaign for consumers to have stronger protections against scam adverts on social media platforms and search engines that can have devastating financial and emotional consequences for victims. These new Online Safety laws are a major step forward in the fight back against fraud […]
Fraudsters are stealing victims’ identities and using well-known social media sites to carry out impersonation scams, Which? has warned. Identity fraud occurs when scammers steal personal information or belongings in order to pretend to be somebody else. In one particularly concerning example, the consumer champion was contacted by Carwyn Roberts, who had his wallet stolen […]
Rocio Concha, Which? Director of Policy and Advocacy, said: “While it’s good to see the regulator clamping down on misleading financial investments online, there is more they and the government can do to protect consumers, including by opening up their data of known rogue sites to ensure platforms can easily detect known bad actors. “Which?’s […]
Rocio Concha, Which? Director of Policy and Advocacy, said: “Consumers desperately need protections fit for the digital age, and the Online Safety Bill has the potential to stop millions of pounds of scams every year by making the biggest tech firms take responsibility for the flood of adverts on their sites paid for by fraudsters […]
Rocio Concha, Which? Director of Policy and Advocacy, said: “The inclusion of paid-for advertising in the Online Safety Bill is a vital step in the right direction for stopping fake and fraudulent ads which appear on the world’s biggest platforms and cause severe financial and emotional harm to innocent victims. “However, we are concerned that […]
People aged between 20 and 39 are the most likely to have reported being scammed in the past year, Which? research reveals, with many young victims losing huge sums of money to online shopping scams, pyramid schemes and rental fraud. Which?’s analysis found that between November 2020 and December 2021, individual victims lodged a total […]
Anabel Hoult, Which? Chief Executive, said: “It’s great news that the government has listened to the stories we have shared from scam victims and from the huge range of organisations that have been pushing for this change. This could make a huge difference to stemming the tide of fake and fraudulent ads on social media […]