Consumers in Scotland lodge over 1,300 fraud and scam complaints
31 January 2025
Fraud and scam complaints from people living in Scotland have increased by almost 40% year-on-year.
Today we've published data showing the number of complaints we received between April and June 2019.
In the first three months of this financial year we received 136,681 new enquiries and 70,304 new complaints – with 12,538 complaints passed to an ombudsman for a final decision. On average, we upheld 30% of the complaints we resolved. View the full data on our product complaints data page.
We've also published, for the first time, the complaints we received about claims management companies (CMCs), since becoming responsible for complaints about CMCs in April 2019. You can see this data on our Claims Management Ombudsman website.
31 January 2025
Fraud and scam complaints from people living in Scotland have increased by almost 40% year-on-year.
31 January 2025
Fraud and scam complaints from people living in the North West of England have increased by a third year-on-year.
31 January 2025
Fraud and scam complaints from people living in London have increased by a third year-on-year.