Reporter
Aisha Bello
Reporter, scams and consumer contact
Aisha reports on the scams readers actually meet: the text that looks like a delivery firm, the WhatsApp message from a supposed relative, the advert on a social feed. She joined the desk from a Birmingham weekly where she ran a long-running consumer column, and she reads every tip that comes through our tip line. Her rule is that a story only runs when the wording, the number or the link has been seen at first hand or published by a named authority.
- Beat
- Text and social-media scams, impersonation of banks and delivery firms, and what readers report to us
- Based in
- Birmingham
- Years reporting
- 6
- Joined The Fraud Center
- September 2020
- Reports in
- English, Hausa
Areas of expertise
- Smishing and phishing
- Impersonation of banks and delivery firms
- Social-media advertising fraud
- Reader tip verification
Training and background
- NCTJ Diploma in Journalism
- Six years reporting UK consumer affairs
- Previously consumer columnist, Birmingham weekly
How this journalist works
Aisha works from the message or advert itself, held alongside what the bank, the platform or the regulator has published. She does not name a firm on the strength of a single reader account.
Published work
No published stories yet under this byline.