January 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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January 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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December 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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December 18, 2009
Elderly lose life savings in scam
Some elderly people have been pressurised into sending their life savings to the operators of a lottery scam.
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November 30, 2009
Watchdog warning on lottery scams
Hundreds of thousands of people are being conned out of money in fake lottery scams, a watchdog warns.
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