Fraud victims targeted by bogus recovery experts
Legal and security experts are warning fraud victims to be alert for criminals claiming to be able to recover lost money.
People who have been cheated out of their savings are being approached by legal recovery companies promising to recover their money for a fee.
However, all too often the company is a front for the original fraudsters or another criminal who has been sold the victim’s details.
The Association of Chief Police Officers’ Workin
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T-Mobile employee confesses to customer data theft
In November 2009, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) revealed that a large number of T-Mobile customer data had been stolen and sold to a third party company by an employee of the company. The revelation came as a result of a campaign by the ICO to introduce tougher punishment for data thieves.
T-Mobile, a part of Deutsche Telekom AG, confessed that the details had been sold and stated that they were working with the ICO to not only find the culprit but t
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Tips to avoid the scammers
Desperate job seekers are being targeted by employment scammers, say security and legal experts.
Last month saw the number of people placed in permanent jobs fall to the lowest levels since the start of the year. Similarly, the Government’s emergency budget, aimed at cutting the deficit, will soon result in the loss of approximately 600,000 public sector jobs.
Legal experts say criminals are preying on a growing number of people who have lost their jobs.
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The Emergency Budget: a point of view from Shred Easy
Following this week’s Emergency Budget, by the new Chancellor, George Osbourne, here’s what our Financial Controller, Ged Taylor, has to say about the potential affects on SMEs.
Employment
Raising the threshold that companies start paying national insurance by £21 per week together with scrapping the previous Government?s planned increase in N.I. contributions, makes it easie
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New Shred Easy appointment guarantees compliance
As the UKs leading confidential document and data destruction company, we have boosted our team by employing a new compliance manager.
Nigel Boothby, 44, who has 23 years experience of maintaining security procedures, health and safety, operational procedures and quality systems, has been employed as head of compliance to maintain our rigorous professional and customer service standards.
Working with our existing environmental and quality manage
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Fakes and the City
So… it seems the new Sex and the City film has seen an upsurge in fake designer goods flooding the market.
The launch of Sex and the City 2 has seen record numbers of women rushing to the flicks to watch their favourite female characters and drool over their designer wardrobes.
However, fans trying to emulate Carrie?s clothes and Samantha?s style has seen the black market flooded with fake designer copies of Chanel jackets, Halston dresses
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Shred Easy Join NAID
As one of the UK’s leading confidential document and data destruction companies, we are pleased to announce we have been approved to become a member of the internationally renowned, National Association for Information Destruction.
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Following the launch of our “Name the Truck” competition, we are proud to introduce the first of our fleet to be christened. Welcome Shreddy Brek!
We launched the competition with Bowdon Church Primary School and 10 mini creatives came up with the winning names for 10 of our trucks.
In return, we awarded all 10 children with £15 worth of books vouchers and the children got to see a truck in action.
As one of the UK’s leading confidential do
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A BUSINESS WARNING! FINES OF UP TO HALF MILLION ON ITS WAY!
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) can now introduce fines of up to £500,000 for breaches of the Data Protection Act.
The new regulations, introduced this week on 6th April 2010, is as a result of the increased numbers of serious data breaches that have hit the headlines. Already in 2010, we have seen 10 such cases, including an incident where confidential and sensitive patient information was found in bin bags outside a supermarket by a member of
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SECURITY, WHATEVER THE CHALLENGE
Earlier this week, on Wednesday 24 March, Shred Easy were once again proud to sponsor, and exhibit at, the British Security Industry Association’s annual Security event in Manchester City Centre.
Now in its 15th year, the seminar and exhibition is a must for all Manchester and North West businesses.The theme of this year’s programme was “Security – Whatever the Challenge” and was opened by Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan of Greater Manchester Police.
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