Fraudsters are spamming out fake British Gas utility bill emails that link to a virus that takes over victims computers. Action Fraud has received hundreds of reports of these emails cleverly designed to look like a seamlessly harmless utility bill. The emails entitled “Your summer gas & electricity bill” contain links that take people to […]
Ever wonder what happened to that pension you paid into thirty years ago? Well, the Department for Work and Pensions has decided it’s time to find out, and have been working with the Pension Tracing Service to launch a website to help people track down their old pension policies. Taking into consideration the demands of […]
Share sale, boiler room, hedge fund or bond fraud involves bogus stockbrokers, usually based overseas, cold calling people to pressure them into buying shares that promise high returns. In reality, the shares are either worthless or non-existent. You are usually contacted out of the blue by a professional-sounding stockbroker who offers you investment opportunities that […]
This is a common dilemma for those with disposable income: do they squirrel it away in a savings account or pay more off their mortgage to become free of one of the biggest debts they have during their lifetime? With interest rates so low it would definitely be preferable to overpay on your mortgage rather […]
And so June has arrived! It seems so long ago we were told there would be a referendum in June on our EU membership, but it is now upon us! We hope that by now you have all done some research and are ready to have your say. I must say, however, that it is […]
It has been reported that two-thirds of first-time buyers would be unable to afford a home without help. Typically, they buy at aged 30 and put down a 17% deposit (on average £26,000). So, depending on how many children you have, that could amount to an awful lot of money being passed down to your […]
The majority of you will be aware of the difference in these terms in relation to property ownership, but for those of you who are not, a quick reminder. Joint Tenancy is where you each own the whole property, which means that when one of you dies their half of the house automatically passes to […]
It would seem that the pension freedoms introduced last year are making it increasingly easier for unregulated investment schemes to target the over 55s. It is reported that, since the new rules were announced, nearly 5 million people over the age of 55 have paid into unregulated investment schemes that are basically doomed to fail. […]
New figures from the City of London Police’s National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) and Get Safe Online show that incidents of online ticket fraud rose by 55% in 2015, costing the UK public £5.2 million. According to actual reported crimes between November 2014 and October 2015, major sporting events such as the Rugby World Cup […]
As I am sure we are all aware, Google are notoriously bad at paying their taxes! In fact, in 2014 they paid France just 5 million Euros in tax from their 225.4 million Euro revenue. Something doesn’t quite add up there! Well, France are not taking it, and are turning up the heat in the […]
It has been reported recently that it will become much easier to switch such things as your mortgage to alternative providers than is currently the case. You will all have struggled to switch providers in the past, and not necessarily your mortgage provider – just attempting to switch your TV package becomes a battle of […]
New analysis has the answer A look back over 10 years reveals the markets where human fund managers are most likely to earn their keep British savers had a 50:50 chance of picking an “active” fund that managed to beat simple automated rivals over the past decade, research for Money Telegraph has established. The study, […]
