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.
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Consumers in the North West lodge nearly 3,000 fraud and scam complaints
31 January 2025
Fraud and scam complaints from people living in the North West of England have increased by a third year-on-year.
Londoners lodge almost 7,000 fraud and scam complaints
31 January 2025
Fraud and scam complaints from people living in London have increased by a third year-on-year.
Financial Ombudsman Service predicts it will receive over 37,000 fraud and scams complaints next year
23 January 2025
We anticipate that fraud and scams will account for 35% of our incoming banking and loan cases in the next financial year.
Christmas tips from the Financial Ombudsman Service to help protect consumers’ festive finances
4 December 2024
Consumers can take some easy steps to protect themselves from unexpected financial worries this Christmas.
‘Ghost brokers’ haunting the insurance market
29 October 2024
This Halloween beware of ‘ghost broker’ deals that are too good to be true or risk being scammed by fraudsters.
Ombudsman News 194
5 September 2024
Welcome to the latest edition of Ombudsman News. In this edition, we look at our latest data, which covers the complaints we received about financial products and services between April and June 2024.
Fraud and scam complaints hit highest ever level
4 September 2024
Fraud and scam complaints are at their highest ever quarterly level, data released by us revealed today.
Ombudsman News 182
4 July 2023
Welcome to the latest edition of Ombudsman News. In this edition we highlight a recent speech by our Chief Executive and Chief Ombudsman, Abby Thomas, on our role in the consumer protection landscape and our preparation for the Consumer Duty. We also share our latest annual complaints data and insight for 2022/23.
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