Property News · April 29, 2017

Email scammers turn their sights on youth football teams


A Reading-based club was duped out of £28,000, but Barclays was only able to recover £8.90. Other volunteer groups and charities should bewareTreasurers of community groups and small charities have been warned to be extremely wary after a youth football club was conned out of more than £28,000 by fraudsters using a fake email scam.The Reading-based Laurel Park FC says it has had to suspend all planned spending, and the treasurer has resigned, after he was duped into making a series of payments to what he thought were companies undertaking work for the club. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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