Reporter
Eleanor Fitzgerald
Senior reporter, fraud against older people
Eleanor has spent most of her career on consumer affairs and now concentrates on fraud aimed at older people: doorstep approaches, telephone impersonation of banks and police, and the pension and equity-release pitches that follow. She sits in on trading standards briefings and reads the case files that make it into published prosecutions.
- Beat
- Doorstep and telephone fraud, pensions and older-victim reporting
- Based in
- Norwich
- Years reporting
- 28
- Joined The Fraud Center
- February 2026
- Reports in
- English
Areas of expertise
- Doorstep crime
- Telephone impersonation
- Pension scams
- Trading standards prosecutions
Training and background
- NCTJ Diploma in Journalism
- Trading Standards liaison training, 2024
How this journalist works
Eleanor never publishes an identifying detail of an older victim without a second conversation on a different day, and offers every interviewee the chance to withdraw before publication.
Published work
No published stories yet under this byline.