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ScamSupport Weekly Digest - Week of January 15
Top Threat This Week: PayPal phishing campaign affecting 500+ users
Statistics: 2,847 scams reported, 156% increase in tax fraud attempts
Security Tip: How to spot fake email headers and verify sender addresses
Critical Alert: New HMRC impersonation campaign using realistic domains
Community Reports: 5 new scam types documented by users
Why Subscribe to Scam Alerts?
Scam tactics evolve every week. The phishing email that landed in millions of inboxes last month is rarely the same one circulating today — fraudsters tweak subject lines, swap impersonated brands, and change the cover stories they use to manufacture urgency. Reading about a scam after it has cost someone money is too late. The point of a weekly digest is to put the new patterns in front of you while they are still unfamiliar, so they look suspicious the first time you see them.
If you live in the UK, fraud overtook every other category of crime by reported incidents some years ago, and the share carried out by email, text and messaging app continues to climb. Most of those losses are not glamorous large-scale heists — they are ordinary people clicking a link in a delivery notification, a tax-refund offer or a "your account has been suspended" email. A short weekly read is the cheapest possible defence.
Each issue of the digest summarises the scams reported through ScamSupport in the previous week, ranks them by how many independent submissions we've seen, and pulls out one or two example messages so you can recognise the language and styling at a glance. We also include a short tip: how to read the real sender on a Gmail or Outlook header, how to verify a delivery notification, how to test whether a website is the one it claims to be.
What's the difference between the three frequencies?
- Weekly digest — one email each Sunday with the week's roundup. The right choice for most people.
- Daily digest — a short summary every weekday. Useful if you support family members who get hit often, or if you work in IT/customer support and need to spot trends fast.
- Critical alerts only — silent until a major active campaign warrants warning subscribers immediately. We send this fewer than once a month on average.
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Do you cover scams outside the UK?
Yes. The community database is dominated by UK-targeted scams, but we cover any high-volume campaign our subscribers are likely to encounter, including US-targeted IRS scams, Australia-targeted MyGov impersonation, and global brand impersonation (PayPal, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix).
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What a Typical Issue Looks Like
The newsletter is deliberately short — most subscribers read each issue in 60 to 90 seconds. We don't pad it with general "stay safe online" advice that you've heard a hundred times; we focus on what's new this week and what you specifically need to recognise.
A typical Sunday digest opens with a one-paragraph summary of the week's volume. Then a section called "This week's top three campaigns" profiles the most-reported lures with a sample subject line, the visual styling fraudsters are using, and the specific red flags. Finally, one short technique — how to read the real sender on Gmail mobile, how to verify a parcel-tracking link, how to use a password manager — that you can act on the same day.
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