If you’ve received an unwanted or spam text, what should you do?

Over the last couple of months I’ve received a healthy crop of texts from companies that seem to think I’ve had a car accident (‘claim £3750 for your injury’) or been mis-sold payment protection insurance. Funnily enough, I’ve not injured myself in a car accident or bought a PPI policy. But neither am I able to stop the texts.

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People with dementia are being scammed by rogue salesmen and companies and sold products and services they don’t need.

There are three quarters of a million people in the UK with dementia and – according to research by the Alzheimer’s Society – a minority of them (around 15%) are being scammed. It’s not a new problem, but as the number of people with dementia increases so, it seems, does the number of scammers. What should you look for and what can you do?

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Buying a plot of land may seem like a good investment but thousands of investors have lost their money through land banking schemes.

Last week I decided to write an article about land banking schemes – where you buy a plot of land in the hope that it gets planning permission – then, yesterday, I received an email from someone who had paid almost £20,000 for two plots of land. She has lost her money and – as things stand – may not get it back. The Financial Services Authority (FSA), says land banking companies have become much more active in the last year and are targeting those frustrated by low savings rates and stock market returns.

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