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Come along and meet your local community trading standards team! We will be joined by our volunteers for The Edge raising awareness about rogue traders and doorstep callers.
Community events this month:

Tuesday 15 March – 10:30-2pm in Commercial Road
Friday 18 March – 10:30-2pm in Cosham High Street

20/11 21 February 2011 source: OFT website
As part of Scams Awareness Month, the Office of Fair Trading is holding a day of action at airports in the UK and Spain to warn people about bogus holiday clubs and to inform them of their new consumer rights.
As families flock to UK airports for half term holidays, the OFT and local trading standards officers are copying the tactics used by bogus holiday club touts and handing out fake holiday club scratchcards at airports including Bristol, Dundee, Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle, Newquay and Stansted. …

Press releases 2011 : Source OFT website
OFT and Age UK join forces to urge scams victims to speak up
14/11 10 February 2011
The Office of Fair Trading and Age UK have joined forces to raise awareness amongst older people of mass-marketed scams and urge them to speak up if they have been targeted by scammers.
Older people are more likely to be targeted by these scammers with over 55s accounting for almost half of people who say they have been approached, according to OFT research.
Age UK is supporting the OFT’s Scams Awareness …

It’s possible that you have. Around half the UK adult population has been targeted by a scam and around 3.2 million people fall victim to scams, losing a collective total of £3.5 billion every year. Some victims in Portsmouth have lost over £100,000 to scam artists; but many also suffer psychological and mental stress.
Scams can come via post, email, text, fake websites and many more ways. They will give you fake promises in order to con you out of your money. These promises may be that they can cure a …

We all like to get letters, but would you like to receive 40 letters everyday asking you to send off money?
Trading standards have recently collected around 5000 scam mailings from one elderly resident living in Portsmouth.
These letters tell you that you have won on a foreign lottery or that you can invest your cash with no risk in stocks and shares.
Unfortunately these offers are too good to be true and are in fact scams. These letters have been collected as part of our Scamnesty campaign. You too …

The Sale of Goods Act (SOGA) hub provides comprehensive and up to date guidance on the Sale of Goods Act for retailers and business support organisations.

The site provides retailers and businesses with training packs and resources that break down the Sale of Goods Act into manageable chunks for both staff and consumers.

This site also allows you to download and use free resources including presentations, sheets, quizzes and posters.
http://www.oft.gov.uk/business-advice/treating-customers-fairly/sogahome/

The community trading standards team have plenty coming up in the next few weeks. Perhaps you would like to come by and check out how you can protect yourself from being ripped off from scams. We will be at the following venues throughout the course of the next month!

Tuesday 1 February  Asda Fratton – Scamnesty launch  10:30 – 2pm
Friday 4 February  Commercial Road, by the fountain 10:30 – 2pm
Tuesday 8 February  Cascades Portsmouth 10:00 – 2pm
Monday 14 February Derby Road Post Office 10:30 – 2pm
Thursday 17 February University of …

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