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Tips for sports fans to avoid World Cup and Commonwealth Games ticket fraud
Posted: 11/06/2014
As Brazilian carnival dominates pub decor and friends and family pack the caravan for a trip to Glasgow, sports fans want to know how to get tickets online to this year's top tier sporting events without getting scammed.听
TSI launches friends and family doorstep crime campaign
Posted: 03/06/2014
Every year the Trading Standards Institute (TSI) develops a National Consumer Week (NCW) campaign in an effort to highlight consumer protection issues. In 2013 we focused on used cars and the challenges used car purchases can bring to consumers. This year, we're focusing on doorstep crime.听
A bitter pill to swallow...
Posted: 20/05/2014
Consumer advice organisation the UK European Consumer Centre is warning that the online purchase of health or beauty products such as slimming or diet pills and face creams could pose a potential problem for some consumers.
Vow to tackle doorstep crime during National Consumer Week 2014
Posted: 06/05/2014
National Consumer Week (NCW) 2014 will start on Monday 3 November. This year's theme is doorstep crime with a focus on encouraging friends, neighbours and carers to intervene when they suspect 听vulnerable neighbours and relatives are, or could become victim of doorstep crime.
European Consumer Centres score a winning goal for consumers travelling to the 2014 World Cup
Posted: 01/05/2014
Will you accompany the Three Lions to the World Cup this summer? And if so, do you know what to expect as a consumer in Brazil?听
Four million people scammed each year
Posted: 01/05/2014
Scams Awareness Month is running throughout May to warn about the fraudsters preying on hard-up households.
Advice centre helps sharpen consumers' teeth to sue traders in a different European country
Posted: 16/04/2014
Action is being taken by consumer advice organisation the UK European Consumer Centre (UK ECC) to help consumers living in the UK understand how to make a claim against a trader based in a different European country.
40% cut in trading standards will devastate vulnerable consumers
Posted: 07/04/2014
Consumers will suffer as trading standards budgets in England and Wales are slashed by an average of 40%. These cuts leave the country open to an influx of dangerous counterfeit goods and will place elderly and vulnerable consumers at greater risk of losing their independence.听
National e-crime team brings down 鈥淢icrosoft鈥� phone scam operator
Posted: 31/03/2014
A national e-crime team, based in Yorkshire, has brought what is believed to be the first ever successful prosecution in the UK of a defendant involved in the Microsoft computer scam.听
TSI approves first code since OFT handover
Posted: 21/03/2014
The Trading Standards Institute (TSI) is pleased to announce the approval of its first code since听听the approved code scheme from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in April 2013.听
Misleading websites to face the squeeze
Posted: 04/03/2014
Misleading websites that try and palm themselves off as legitimate Government services are to come under the spotlight from Trading Standards today as Consumer Minister Jenny Willott confirmed extra funding for them to help tackle these rogue traders.听
Survey results shows high customer confidence in approved code garages
Posted: 24/02/2014
A survey of 57,000 people has revealed that 95% of people using a Trading Standards Institute (TSI) approved Motor Codes garage would recommend it to friends and families, with a 97% overall satisfaction rating.
