Advance fee fraud

Accommodation fraud is when you pay money to make a hotel reservation or book another form of accommodation, but the hotel or reservation does not to exist.

From bogus ‘Computer Software Tech Support’ phone calls, e.g. someone from Microsoft or Apple contacting you and telling you there is a problem with your device, to fraudsters asking for credit card information to ‘validate your software’, e.g. validate your windows software, there are a number of computer software service scams you need to look out for.

Electricity frauds, or doorstep electricity meter credit scams, often involve being offered cut-price energy for those who use pre-payment meters.