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顧客s of 調書をとる／予約するing.com have told how they lost money after 落ちるing for a 納得させるing 詐欺 （罪などを）犯すd through the website's messaging app. As 以前 報告（する）／憶測d by This is Money, the hotel and short let website's messaging system has been infiltrated by scammers, who tell 顧客s that they need to 支払う／賃金 付加 料金s to 安全な・保証する their 調書をとる／予約するing and pocket the cash.

In a car park somewhere on the rugged Cornish coast, a Ghanaian scammer stands shivering and 混乱させるd. He has been sent here to collect the 支払い（額） for 10kg of 非，不，無-existent gold 約束d to the 犠牲者 of one of his scams. The fraudster is 推定する／予想するing to get £234,000 in cash. It's a 大規模な sum, by far outweighing the costs of the 6,000 mile 一連の会議、交渉／完成する trip from the Ghanaian 資本／首都, Accra. But, he has been tricked by a new wave of scambaiters. Here, two scambaiters tell us their favourite techniques - and how to stay 安全な from scams.

App 蓄える／店s are nothing if not unwieldy beasts. Every month, thousands of apps are 追加するd to the Google Play 蓄える／店, with 62,000 apps 追加するd to the 壇・綱領・公約 in November 2023 alone. Likewise, the Apple App 蓄える／店 saw 38,000 apps 追加するd during the same month. Unsurprisingly, with such high 容積／容量s of content, apps masquerading as 合法的 can, and do, slip through the 逮捕する. While the best advice is to stick to 公式の／役人 app 蓄える／店s when downloading apps, it appears that this is by no means a foolproof method.

It can take いっそう少なく than six hours to 切り開く／タクシー／不正アクセス 90 per cent of passwords, によれば 研究, leaving your online 身元, personal data, and bank accounts just clicks away from any hacker 価値（がある） their salt. But depressingly the two most ありふれた passwords remain 'password' and '123456'. Here's how to best keep yourself cyber 安全な・保証する in 2024.

Scammers continue to ride roughshod over the 法律, 的ing people with phone calls, text messages, emails, social マスコミ requests and even letters. Some are 平易な to 位置／汚点／見つけ出す from a mile off, with many of us having been 接触するd by a?Nigerian prince in need of help 埋め立てるing his lost 相続物件, or received a 貧しく-worded email 警告 that at least 574 ウイルスs have been （悪事，秘密などを）発見するd on our PCs. However, the 広大な 大多数 are not やめる so 平易な to 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, and fraudsters are coming up with new ones all the time. によれば 研究 from Which? 株d 排他的に with This is Money, there are five new scams that people should keep a keen 注目する，もくろむ out for this year.

顧客s 調書をとる／予約するing holiday accommodation on the website 調書をとる／予約するing.com are 勧めるd to be aware of scammers impersonating 本物の hotels. We have seen messages from fraudsters which appeared on the 場所／位置's 安全な・保証する messaging portal, asking them to make 支払い（額）s to 安全な・保証する a 保留（地）／予約. This is 類似の to a previous scam 報告（する）／憶測d in October 2023, when a number of travellers also said they had received fraudulent messages asking for 支払い（額）.

Shoppers have been 警告するd about the 購入（する） scams to watch out for in 2024 by Lloyds Bank. Thousands of people 追跡（する）ing for tickets, cars, pets, and much more were tricked into 手渡すing money over to fraudsters this year, with 購入（する） scams 急に上がるing by 42 per cent compared to last year. These are the biggest scams shoppers need to watch out for in 2024.

More than 5,400 希望に満ちた tenants have been scammed out of deposits for 非，不，無-existent 賃貸しの 所有物／資産／財産s in the past year, によれば 活動／戦闘 詐欺. With tenants 直面するing 抱擁する 競争 to 安全な・保証する homes, fraudsters have flooded social マスコミ with dodgy adverts and 偽の 所有物／資産／財産 listings to 偉業／利用する the red-hot 賃貸しの market.

運転者s have been 勧めるd to take extra 警告を与える when searching for their 保険会社 online as there is a new 産む／飼育する of '（人命などを）奪う，主張するs 乗っ取り犯人s' on the loose who will try to 略奪する them of thousands of 続けざまに猛撃するs. The 保険 詐欺 Bureau say there has already been countless 事例／患者s of 攻撃を受けやすい people every day 的d by scammers who use paid advert spoof websites to appear at the 最高の，を越す of Google and other search engines to dupe unwitting drivers into thinking they will be redirected to the 場所／位置 of the 本物の 保険会社. People looking to make a （人命などを）奪う，主張する can inadvertently 接触する one of these third-party 場所／位置s 経由で an 広告 and think they're 取引，協定ing with their provider, only to be 罠にかける in 合法的な 協定s with unknown 会社／堅いs and 直面するing costs of up to £50,000.

Reporter Jessica 耐えるd (pictured) 配達するd a letter to the 総理大臣 yesterday, calling on him to 軍隊 social マスコミ 会社／堅いs to 割れ目 負かす／撃墜する on scammers operating on their 壇・綱領・公約s. In a rare show of まとまり, 公式の／役人s from eight of the UK's largest banks and building societies joined us to 始める，決める out the 緊急の 活動／戦闘 we believe tech companies must take to 保護する their 使用者s from 犯罪のs.

The bank said that 購入（する） 詐欺, when scammers trick people into 支払う／賃金ing for goods and services that don't 存在する, is 運動ing scam 事例／患者s across the banking 部門. UK banks are seeing over 400 事例／患者s a day of online 購入（する） 詐欺, having 記録，記録的な／記録するd 77,000 事例／患者s in the first six months of 2023 alone.

Britons lost more than half a billion 続けざまに猛撃するs to 犯罪のs through 詐欺 in the first six months of this year, によれば new 人物／姿／数字s. 犯罪のs stole £580million through 詐欺 によれば a new 報告（する）／憶測 by UK 財政／金融. This 量s to one 窃盗 by fraudsters every 12 seconds. Social マスコミ continues to play a 抱擁する part in the はびこる problem of 詐欺, with three-４半期/4分の1s of 詐欺 starting online.

The 'resteal' is a 反対／詐欺 that sees unsuspecting second-手渡す car 買い手s 購入（する） a cloned 乗り物, only to have it stolen just days later by the very people who sold it to them, によれば the モーター 保険 loss 調整 会社／堅い （人命などを）奪う，主張するs 管理／経営 & Adjusting. It says 犯罪のs then move on to their next 犠牲者 and repeat the dishonest trick using the same 乗り物, with the 身元 changed yet again. The 会社／堅い has 供給するd its 最高の，を越す five tips to 避ける 落ちるing for the 搾取する.