What is Take Five
Take Five is a national campaign offering straight-forward, impartial advice that helps prevent email, phone-based and online fraud – particularly where criminals impersonate trusted organisations.
What is Take Five
Take Five is a national campaign offering straight-forward, impartial advice that helps prevent email, phone-based and online fraud – particularly where criminals impersonate trusted organisations.
What is Take Five
Take Five is a national campaign offering straight-forward, impartial advice that helps prevent email, phone-based and online fraud – particularly where criminals impersonate trusted organisations.
What is Take Five
Take Five is a national campaign offering straight-forward, impartial advice that helps prevent email, phone-based and online fraud – particularly where criminals impersonate trusted organisations.
TAKE FIVE TO PROTECT YOURSELF ONLINE
Criminals are experts at using technology to commit fraud. They can spend hours researching you and will use any information they find in their scams. They might use phishing emails, cloned websites and fake social media or dating profiles to get your information.
Visit ouronline scams advice page to find out more about being mindful of about what you share online, using the internet safely and keeping your accounts secure.
TAKE FIVE TO STOP FRAUD
Stop
Take a moment to stop and think before parting with your money or information. It could keep you safe.
Challenge
Ask yourself, could it be fake? It’s ok to reject, refuse or ignore any requests. Only criminals will try to rush or panic you.
Protect
Contact your bank immediately if you think you’ve been scammed and report it to Action Fraud atactionfraud.police.uk or on0330 123 2040.
Are you scam-savvy?
Criminals are turning to more sophisticated ways to take your money, whether through online offers, emails or telephone calls. Can you outsmart them? Put your ability to spot a scam to the test with our quick quiz.
How ScamSceptible are you today?
Scammers can try to take advantage of how we are feeling. Sometimes, we might be more susceptible to their tactics. In the right environment, on the right day, every person is #ScamSceptible - and fraudsters know this well.That’s why we’ve created a new tool to test how ‘ScamSceptible’ you may be on any given day. Take the test now and share it with friends and family to see how you can protect yourself against fraud.
Take Five toolkit
We want organisations, businesses and individuals to be able to spread the message and get involved in the campaign so we can all help protect the nation against financial fraud. Please support Take Five and make use of the full suite of campaign materials we have on offer.
