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Enter a firm name, an FCA reference number or a website. We check the FCA Warning List, the Financial Services Register and Companies House, and show you exactly what each says. No sign-up, no email required.
Investigation · 25 Aug 2026
We matched contact details across every clone entry in our Warning List archive. Numbers and email domains reappear under new firm names, which suggests a small number of operations behind many warnings.
Investigation · 25 Aug 2026
A reporter answered one cold call and kept answering. What followed was a scripted, twenty-day operation using the reference number of a genuinely authorised London firm — and a bank transfer request that arrived, politely, on day nine.
News · 24 Aug 2026
Our archive recorded twenty new or updated entries on the Financial Conduct Authority's Warning List over the past week. Six copied the identity of an authorised firm.
Investigation · 24 Aug 2026
We transcribed a real impersonation call reported to our tip line and annotated every sentence. Almost all of the persuasion happens in the first fifteen seconds — before the caller has asked for anything at all.
By Daniel Okoye
News · 23 Aug 2026
The National Cyber Security Centre and international partners have attributed a phishing campaign requiring no user interaction to Russian state-supported actors. Consumer accounts are not the stated target.
By Daniel Okoye
Explainer · 23 Aug 2026
Follow a single stolen payment through the accounts it passes on the way out. The reason speed matters so much to your bank is that, after roughly ninety minutes, there is usually nothing left to recover.
Investigation · 22 Aug 2026
We read every entry added to the FCA Warning List over the past month and coded each one. Fixed-return language dominates, domains are younger than ever, and one contact pattern appears in nearly a fifth of records.
News · 21 Aug 2026
The Prudential Regulation Authority has fined an insurer more than four million pounds over inaccurate reporting of Financial Services Compensation Scheme liabilities. The penalty concerns reporting, not consumer losses.
News · 18 Aug 2026
With Bank Rate unchanged at 3.75 per cent, advertised returns far above the best available savings rates remain the clearest marker of an unauthorised promotion.
News · 16 Aug 2026
Fraudulent accommodation and flight listings track periods when official travel advice changes and travellers rebook at short notice. Payment method is the deciding factor in recovery.
By Daniel Okoye
Every update the desk logs, as it lands. A reporter’s name and portrait appear only where a reporter signed the update; monitoring pickups carry the publisher’s own mark and a link to their page.
Auto-refreshing · checked 16:51
Mon 2 Nov
FCA Warning ListFCA Warning ListFirm warning
Prime Yield Assets is not authorised or registered by the FCA. Find out more about unauthorised firms and individuals.
FCA Warning ListFCA Warning ListFirm warning
Momentum Peak Trade is not authorised or registered by the FCA. Find out more about unauthorised firms and individuals.
Which?Which? & consumerReport
With retailers and brands offering trade-ins on some tech, what are your options if you want good money for an old TV?
UK FinanceUK Finance & bankingAlert
Sophia Le Vesconte charlotte.raje… Mon, 11/02/2026 - 16:06 Counsel Linklaters
UK FinanceUK Finance & bankingAlert
John Hutton charlotte.raje… Mon, 11/02/2026 - 16:24 Senior Director, Payments Efficiency LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Which?Which? & consumerReport
Snap up savings on practical everyday buys, from power banks and umbrellas to supplements
Tue 3 Nov
Financial Conduct AuthorityRegulator & governmentAlert
Research shows consumers want the choice, rather than wait for the legal challenges to conclude. Almost 9 out of 10 (89%) car finance customers who have complained or are considering doing so want the choice of an offer of compensation n…
FCA Warning ListFCA Warning ListFirm warning
Equity Plus Options / equityplusoptions.com is not authorised or registered by the FCA. Find out more about unauthorised firms and individuals.
National Cyber Security CentreCyberAlert
The NCSC warns that ‘tech on the cheap’ has left UK organisations exposed to AI uncovering and exploiting longstanding cyber security weaknesses and calls for urgent investment in resilience.
National Cyber Security CentreCyberAlert
An NCSC assessment that examines current AI-enabled threat trends and projections of the threat landscape to 2028.
Financial Conduct AuthorityRegulator & governmentAlert
New UK rules for environmental, social and governance (ESG) rating providers will raise standards in the market, helping investors to make better informed decisions. The new framework brings ESG rating providers into FCA regulation for t…
Financial Conduct AuthorityRegulator & governmentAlert
New UK rules for environmental, social and governance (ESG) rating providers will raise standards in the market, helping investors to make better informed decisions. The new framework brings ESG rating providers into FCA regulation for t…
Reference prices, refreshed while the page is open. Investment fraud almost always leans on a number: a gold price, an index level, a crypto quote in a screenshot.
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FTSE 100
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Gold
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Brent crude
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Pound / US dollar
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Bitcoin
BTC-GBP
Counts of records we hold — not estimates of fraud across the UK.
Clone firms copy the name or details of a genuine authorised business.
One firm can appear in more than one row.
Website recorded404(36%)
Website recorded: 404 entriesPhone recorded227(20%)
Phone recorded: 227 entriesEmail recorded444(39%)
Email recorded: 444 entriesNo contact details held61(5%)
No contact details held: 61 entries
How each kind of fraud is run, what the approach looks like and where the money goes.
Authorisation, clone firms, the FCA Warning List and what a listing does and does not mean.
The free routes to complain, escalate and be reimbursed, and the limits of each.
Clone firms copy real authorised firms to steal your money
34 entries · prevention guide included
Investment scams promise returns that genuine products cannot match
65 entries · prevention guide included
APP fraud tricks you into sending money yourself
0 entries · prevention guide included
Impersonation scams create a fake deadline to force a payment
5 entries · prevention guide included
