What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
West Yorkshire Trading Standards is running another of its Scam and Frauds Workshops at Dewsbury Road Community Hub in Beeston on Wednesday 24 April 2019 at 11am. The workshop will make residents aware of the most common types of scams and frauds in circulation, how to avoid them and where
Travellers looking to book their Hajj pilgrimage this year are being warned against deals that seem too good to be true. The UK Civil Aviation Authority’s campaign is working to protect travellers after an increasing trend in the sale of illegal or fake package deals. In the worst cases, these
Belle Isle TMO If you’d like to find out more about spotting scams and frauds, with some practical advice about keeping safe, come along to our FREE session on Tuesday 18 September 2018 from 2.30pm. West Yorkshire Trading Standards will be here to offer information, advice and ways of keeping
Police are warning the public not to give their bank card personal identification number (PIN) to anyone after bogus bank officials have stolen thousands of pounds by tricking victims into handing over their PIN. Scammers have been stealing victims’ wallets and purses from multiple locations in the Yorkshire area
The following article first appeared on the West Yorkshire Trading Standards blog here. Debt Awareness Week 2014 (20-26 January), is a new national campaign to get people talking about the money worries that keep them awake at night. The campaign, involving organisations across the UK, sees organisations and support
The Beeston Festival email account got hacked yesterday morning. We dealt with it and ironically it helped us to start organising this year’s event. Everyone on our contact list received an email, purportedly from me, saying I was stuck in Cyprus and lost all my money, passport etc and
West Yorkshire Trading Standards have been in touch with news of another scam: Officers have been made aware of a fraudulent phone call, purporting to be from the Secure Fraud Unit at a well-known high street bank. The bogus caller went on to say that the victims account was subject