Government failing to protect us from scams

Robert Powell
by Lovemoney Staff Robert Powell on 14 November 2011  |  Comments 5 comments

Consumer protection is failing to keep up with wide scale online scams, as Robert Powell reports...

 

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  • nickthecrip2
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    nickthecrip2 said

    No sh*t Sherlock! Not a surprise, now is it? Should anyone be surprised though-I have a bridge in London for sale-going cheap!!

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  • Rudolph Hucker
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    Rudolph Hucker said

    And thanks to Tony Blair and his ugly wife we now have "Lawyers are us" and I get endless calls encouraging me to make claims......

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