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End of the line for phone scams
Many Londoners have been stung by phone scams.
The plague of telephone lottery scams, phoney prize draws and pyramid schemes is to be wiped out by tough new European laws, championed by London Labour MEPs Mary Honeyball, Robert Evans and Claude Moraes.
As many scammers operate overseas, help from local councils and Trading Standards offices to track down the culprits is needed.
A number of London councils are taking part in a nationwide “Scamnesty”. This initiative asks local people to put all scam mail in clearly marked yellow bins placed in public areas such as libraries so they can be investigated.
Mary Honeyball MEP said: “These laws leave no hiding place for those who prey on the vulnerable and elderly, who scam over three million UK consumers out of a staggering £3.5 billion each year.”
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End of the line for phone-scammers
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