What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Public Health England and healthcare providers in Leeds want to alert the public to a possible scam. Some women are being contacted by text message, claiming to be from Public Health England’s ‘call and recall’ service, advising them that they are overdue for their cervical screening test. The recipient is
The NHS in Leeds is warning local people to beware of a new text scam that appears to use a genuine NHS appointment reminder number. The warning from the Counter Fraud team at Audit Yorkshire follows several patients around the country reporting “smishing” texts. Smishing is a form of fraud.
Following Storm Ciara, West Yorkshire Trading Standards is warning householders to be extra vigilant if approached by traders offering to carry out property repairs as a result of storm damage. Trading Standards is concerned rogue traders could knock on doors offering to carry out property repairs such as damaged roofing
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
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
4 January at Leeds · Hi, Just to make people aware. Today Carl was approached by a Eastern European Man in Hunslet (outside Penny Hill) asking if he wanted to buy a iPhone 6 as the man needed the money for petrol to get to London. Carl refused and carried
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