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OFT launches Scams Awareness Month 2008

1 February 2008

Campaign highlights the plight of elderly victims who suffer in silence

The OFT today launches its 2008 Scams Awareness Month to raise awareness of mass marketed scams, which cost the UK public £3.5billion a year.

Every year an estimated three million UK consumers fall victim to scams sent by post, email, text, the phone and internet.  One of the main themes of this year's campaign is to highlight the hidden misery of thousands of elderly and vulnerable consumers who repeatedly fall victim to scams such as bogus lotteries, deceptive prize draw and sweepstakes, fake psychics and 'miracle' health cures.

Click here for this recent article from the Office of Fair Trading.