18 November 2025 - Cost of Living
Beware of winter fuel payment scams
Between April and September 2025, Action Fraud has received 2,790 crime reports relating to Winter Fuel Payment scams, with victims reporting losses totalling over £27,000.
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18 September 2025 - Society
Asian Hornet monitoring traps for farmers and landowners
Kent Downs National Landscape is working in conjunction with Asian Hornet Alert to help distribute monitoring traps for this invasive non-native species across Kent.
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8 September 2025 - Society
Warning to #ProtectYourPension from fraud
Savers and those reaching retirement age are being warned to protect their pensions and look out for criminals trying to catch people out of their life savings, with Action Fraud revealing a total annual loss of £17,567,249. This equates to roughly £48,129 lost to this type of fraud per day in 2024.
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1 September 2025 - Society
VAWG – Be Behaviour Aware
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) has no place in our communities. Kent Police is committed to tackling this issue head-on and ensuring that everyone - especially women and girls - can feel safe where they live, work, and socialise.
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3 June 2025 - Society
Don’t get hooked: new warning urges the public to continue reporting phishy emails and texts with 41 million already reported
As of April 2025, the total number of phishing scams reported to the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) reached over 41 million since its launch in April 2020. This has resulted in 217,000 scams being removed from across 393,395 websites pages by the National Cyber Security Centre.
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15 May 2025 - Society
Action Fraud Alert: rise of extortion phishing email reports
Action Fraud are urging the public to look out for phishing emails that relate to extortion as the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) received over 2,924 reports in March 2025, a staggering increase compared to only 133 reports made in February.
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