Cambridgeshire Neighbourhood Watch Association

Rogue Trading Information and Advice

Neighbourhood Policing Team

Buying on your doorstep can be convenient and many honest businesses use this technique to sell you goods or services in your home or on your doorstep – but so do fraudsters. Bogus tradesmen, door-to-door sales or doorstep fraud Read more

Read more...

Rogue Trading Do’s and Don’ts

Neighbourhood Policing Team
Fraud by rogue or bogus traders or door to door sellers is very common and often involves fees being paid in advance of work being done, over inflated estimates, or costs that seem to keep rising – all because the fraudsters are trying to get at your money. Read more
Read more...

Ten Golden Rules to Prevent Fraud

Fraud is the intentional deception or misrepresentation for financial gain or to cause loss to others. Read more
Read more...

Are you clued up on OTPs?

Police Logo
Cambridgeshire police cyber security advisor, Nigel Sutton, has this important warning: Cambridgeshire police cyber security advisor, Nigel Sutton, has this important warning: Are you clued up on OTPs? Read more
Read more...

Is it a Scam?

Cyberhood Logo

If you are given information whether by email, online, on your doorstep, social media or any other method, but you feel uneasy about it trust your instincts and check it out. When checking for a scam, it’s best to Read more

Read more...

ATM Scammers

Neighbourhood Watch Logo
Scammers can use a range of methods to obtain your data, but holidaymakers are particularly vulnerable to card skimming when using cash machines abroad. Read more
Read more...

More About Scams

If you think you may have been scammed online or for more information you can visit these website links.

Take Five

Take Five is a national campaign offering straight-forward, impartial advice that helps prevent email, phone-based and online fraud.

Read more

Read more...

Dating Scammers

Police and Crime Commissioner Darryl Preston is warning people to stay alert to dating scammers after new figures revealed romance fraud had cost victims more than £100k across the county – in just one month.

Speaking ahead of Valentine’s Read more

Read more...

Scam Alert from Age UK

One of CAPASP’s partners, Age UK Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, has been in touch to warn about an attempted scam relating to the Household Support Fund (HSF) which is in place to support older people this autumn. Age UK Cambridgeshire Read more

Read more...

Phishing and Pharming

Phishing and pharming are both types of cyber-attack but have different approaches. Phishing is more common than pharming. The explanations for both are very technical so I apologise to all the cybercrime experts reading, as I am not technical Read more

Read more...

Warning of loan shark dangers in Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire County Council is lending its support to a national campaign aimed at tackling loan sharks. Read more
Read more...

Ghost Broking

Neighbourhood Watch Logo

Beware the cheap car insurance that’s too good to be trueIn their latest investigation Which found social media sites rife with ads for fake insurance. They seem professional, with reams of feedback from happy customers, so – as Read more

Read more...
WordPress Cookie Plugin by Real Cookie Banner