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1. Confirming your identity

   The way banks verify your identity has changed. The new rules, known as Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), aim to protect your money from fraudsters.

2. Boiler room scams

   Media centre Last modified: 31/10/2016
   Boiler room scams. Type: Infographic File size: 1.4 MB File added: 15/08/2016 First published: 31/08/2016. ... Share page. People working in a boiler room do everything they can to control and manipulate their target.

3. Six guilty in relation to £2.7m boiler room scam

   Press Releases Published: 11/12/2017 Last modified: 11/12/2017
   In a criminal prosecution brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), three defendants have today been found guilty for their roles in a series of boiler rooms which led to the loss of more than £2.7m of investors’ funds. 

4. Share, bond and boiler room scams

   Consumers Scams Published: 10/08/2017 Last modified: 20/03/2023
   Find out how share and bond scams work, how to avoid them and what to do if you’re scammed.

5. Restricted US share scams

   Scams Published: 04/04/2016 Last modified: 05/05/2016
   Find out how restricted US shares work, how to tell if it is a scam, what you can do to protect yourself and what to do if you have been scammed.

6. An arrest in FCA boiler room investigation

   Press Releases Published: 13/03/2014 Last modified: 30/09/2016
   One individual, aged 21, was arrested and interviewed in connection with an investigation into boiler room activity. ... Because the people selling shares through boiler rooms do not have permission from the FCA to do so, boiler room scams constitute

7. FCA winds up a boiler room

   Press Releases Published: 20/03/2014 Last modified: 01/04/2014
   FCA winds up a boiler room. Press Releases First published:. 20/03/2014. ... FCA winds up a boiler room.

8. Three arrested in FCA boiler room investigation

   Press Releases Published: 15/01/2014 Last modified: 15/01/2014
   Boiler room operations usually use high-pressure selling techniques to persuade consumers to buy shares that are often worth very little or nothing at all. ... Because the people selling shares through boiler rooms do not have permission from the FCA to

9. Recovery room scams

   Consumers Scams Published: 04/12/2019 Last modified: 30/10/2023
   Find out how recovery room scams work, how to avoid them and what to do if you’re scammed.

10. GFS Management Limited

    Warnings Published: 05/04/2016 Last modified: 25/08/2016
    Fraudsters are using the details of firms we authorise to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Find out more about this ‘clone firm’.

11. FCA acts quickly to stop suspected boiler room from taking more money

    Press Releases Published: 19/11/2013 Last modified: 29/11/2016
    A suspected boiler room has had an unlimited worldwide asset freezing order placed upon it by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after a High Court judge agreed that First Capital Wealth Limited (FCW) posed a serious risk to consumers. The