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01/31, 2010

Warning on tax return e-mail scam

Thousands of fraudulent e-mails have been sent out ahead of Sunday's tax return deadline, Revenue & Customs says.

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01/22, 2010

Fraud ‘costs the UK £30bn a year’

Fraud - including scams, online theft, insurance cheats and tax fraud - costs the UK £30bn a year, an official estimate says.

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01/18, 2010

OAP loses £24,000 in lotto scam

An elderly woman from the Aberdeen area is cheated out of £24,000 in a Euromillions lottery scam, police have said.

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01/15, 2010

Haiti - the Tweet that raised $8m

An appeal to help victims of the Haiti earthquake is breaking all records, fuelled by the power of social media, but suspicious appeals for aid have also emerged.

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12/26, 2009

Most read stories of the year: 50 to 41

Look-back at what readers of the BBC Scotland news website have been reading this year.

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