Christmas is coming and the fraudsters are getting fat. Read the Moneywise guide to making sure your hard-earned cash goes exactly where you want it to this year.
More than 2,000 websites have been suspended by the Metropolitan Police for selling counterfeit goods or no goods at all – but there are still plenty of fraudulent sites to watch out for.
Phone banking fraud losses have increased by 48% in the first half of 2011, compared to the same time period in 2010, figures from the UK Payments Association reveal.