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A new scam uses the logo and branding of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute
Posted 30 April 2021 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Crime|National
UPDATES: Fraudsters have used CTSI branding in letters promoting a bogus compensation scheme, prompting warnings that recipients should not complete the fake debt form and should report the scam.
CTSI has been made aware of a postal scam which informs the victim they have been exposed to a company that the Institute has allegedly investigated.
The phoney letter, clad in CTSI branding, informs the recipient that insurance scammers have been caught and that the recipient should fill in a "creditors debt form" as part of a bogus compensation scheme. Filling out the form put...
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