Recently, when the billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman made headlines for militating against the thought crimes of Harvard undergraduates, the coverage disinterred memories of what had previously been Ackman’s most famous moral crusade: his five-year campaign, during the twenty-tens, to short-sell Herbalife, the dietary-supplement company. Herbalife can be politely called a “multilevel-marketing” or “direct-sales” or “network-marketing” firm, but Ackman and many others called it a pyramid scheme. They believed that, in the words of my colleague Sheelah Kolhatkar, “the company’s
Imagine coming home to find unexpected packages on your doorstep. Boxes full of random merchandise from Amazon or other companies. Seems like a jackpot, doesn’t it?
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But as the Better Business Bureau (BBB) warns, this scam called “brushing” has a scary downside, and you are not the real winner here.
Brushing scams have seen
Scammers are impersonating HMRC in a range of insidious scams (Image: GETTY)
As people prepare to pay their tax bill at the end of January for the 2021-22 tax year, scammers are impersonating HMRC in a range of insidious scams aimed at parting you from your money or capturing sensitive personal data. You may be one of the many people who have received a text message that says it’s from HMRC. The text will contain a short message and a
Holidaymakers are at risk of losing thousands of pounds to scammers, as criminals at home and abroad prepare to take advantage of the return of international travel.
Trade body UK Finance is warning jet-setters to watch out for ticketing, travel and health insurance scams, as they begin booking much-needed breaks after two years of Covid restrictions.
It said sophisticated phishing and fake social media adverts were on the rise as Britons begin hunting for holiday deals, while new street scams
