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\nA Reading-based club was duped out of \u00a328,000, but Barclays was only able to recover \u00a38.90. 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 \u00a328,000 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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