New online safety law to put tech giants into the dock
The Government has vowed to hit social media and search engine giants where it hurts, with potential fines of 10%…
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Facebook and Google ‘dawdle in dealing with scam ads’
Tech giants Facebook and Google stand accused of failing to act fast enough to remove scam ads after they have…
Fresh warning over Royal Mail delivery payment scam
Fraudsters are jumping on the home shopping bandwagon with yet another scam which uses a Royal Mail branding to claim…
Tech giants too slow to act as scammers ‘run riot’ online
Tech giants Google and Microsoft are failing to act quickly enough to remove ads from unauthorised firms – even after…
Covid fuels fresh barrage of nuisance marketing calls
Any hope that Covid-19 would batter cowboy marketers has been scotched by a fresh surge in nuisance calls targeting the…
Epsilon fingered in US lawsuit over selling scam data
The former owner of data-driven marketing giant Epsilon has been forced to cough up $150m (£110m) in an effort to avoid…
Name-dropping agency chiefs banned for £3.5m scam
Two agency directors who provided prospective shareholders with false information to secure millions of pounds in investment for their affiliate…
ASA joins war on £190bn fraud with Scam Ad Alert tool
The ad watchdog is joining the fight against online scammers – estimated to cost British firms and consumers £190bn every…
Agency bosses banged up for evading £5m HMRC bill
Two elderly men, who pheonixed a marketing agency six times over a 16-year period to avoid paying more than £5m…
Revealed: The billion pound cost of Blue Badge fraud
Parking officers have long had to contend with Blue Badge fraud but a new analysis can finally reveal that unscrupulous…