Navigation
Site map
Every page on the site in one place, grouped by section. Scam type hubs collect the warnings and reporting for each pattern of fraud.
Scam type hubs
Clone firms
Clone firms copy real authorised firms to steal your money
17 entries
Investment scams
Investment scams promise returns that genuine products cannot match
15 entries
Authorised push payment fraud
APP fraud tricks you into sending money yourself
0 entries
Impersonation scams
Impersonation scams create a fake deadline to force a payment
1 entry
Phishing and malicious email
Phishing steals passwords and installs malware through messages
0 entries
Holiday and travel booking fraud
Fake accommodation and flight listings spike when travel advice changes
0 entries
Warning list additions
New FCA Warning List entries and updates
106 entries
Reporting and feeds
- Front page
Latest reporting, live desk and the newest Warning List entries.
- The Live Desk
Rolling updates as warnings and reports land.
- Reporters' chat
The desk's updates as a running thread, with filters and saved items.
- Alerts
Category and firm alerts you can follow.
- Fraud timeline
Every warning, decision and rule change, dated.
- Explainers
How each fraud works and what the rules say.
- Corrections
What we got wrong and how we fixed it.
Databases and tools
- FCA Warning List archive
Searchable archive of warned firms and websites.
- Check a firm
Free lookup against the Warning List and the Register.
- Firms and operators
Hub pages collecting every warning and report per name.
- Scam types
Filterable feed grouped by type of fraud.
- Fraud data
Charts counted from the records we hold.
- Markets and indices
Live world prices, refreshed continuously.
- Community activity
Recent follows, comments and reader signals.
- Tip line
Send the newsroom something in confidence.
If you have lost money
- Contacting your bank
What to say and how quickly to act.
- Financial Ombudsman Service
Free, independent adjudication if a complaint is rejected.
Who we are
- About and methodology
Who we are, how we source, verify and publish.
- Our reporters
Every reporter and editor, their beat, expertise and languages.
- Work with us
Newsroom roles, how we hire and what we pay for.
- Ownership and funding
Who owns us, how we are paid for, what we refuse.
- Editorial policy
Standards, sign-off, naming gates and right of reply.
- Corrections and changes
Every correction and material change, logged and dated.
- Contact
Newsroom, complaints, right of reply and data requests.
- House style and typography
The internal standards this site is built to.
Legal
- Privacy notice
What we store, for how long, and what we refuse to record.
- Cookies and local storage
No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking.
- Disclaimer
Information, not advice. No claims handling, no referrals.
- Site map
This page — every section in one place.
Explainer clusters
Scam types
How each kind of fraud is run, what the approach looks like and where the money goes.
Firms and warnings
Authorisation, clone firms, the FCA Warning List and what a listing does and does not mean.
Redress and rights
The free routes to complain, escalate and be reimbursed, and the limits of each.
Explainers and reports
- Where the money actually goes in the first ninety minutes
- Reporting fraud: who to tell, in what order, and why the order matters
- How the Financial Ombudsman Service works, and when you can use it
- The reimbursement rules for APP fraud, in plain terms
- What an FCA Warning List entry does, and does not, mean
- Clone firms: when the details are real but the firm contacting you is not
- What FCA authorisation actually means, and what it does not
- Impersonation scams: what a real bank, HMRC or police call never asks for
- How an investment scam is actually run, from the first advert to the last payment
- What authorised push payment fraud is, and how it differs from card fraud