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You and Yours: Scam Adverts, Holiday Parks, Deleting Games

Scam Adverts, Holiday Parks, Deleting Games

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Scam Adverts, Holiday Parks, Deleting Games

Clothing brand Seasalt is the latest to be hit by scam adverts on Meta.

UK clothing company Seasalt Cornwall is  one of the latest companies that have had scammer place fake adverts on Meta platforms that lead to very convincing websites.

You may have noticed on Facebook and Instagram adverts for Seasalt clothing for sale with 80% off, if you have clicked on them you are taken to a website that looks very similar to the official one – but this is all a scam. 
This scam is similar to the 76,000 fake sites, that the UK’s Chartered Trading Standards Institute has described as one of the largest scams of its kind. We will hear from them and a lady that did try to order from these rogue sites, only to get her money back but now very worried about the data she handed over. We’ll be telling you how you can protect yourself, and what the tell-tale signs of you data being used by others.

Haven Holidays and Butlins are both seeing a rise in those wanting to head to one of their holiday parks. We’ll be talking with the chief executive of Butlins about this success, and to one punter that loves going to a holiday park. 

And when you buy a computer game you’d expect to be able to play it for as long as you want, right? Well that’s not always how it turns out as there are more games that are having their servers taken down, leaving some gamers angry at this situation. We’ll be chatting Ross Scott, the person behind Stop Killing Games, a campaign that aims to put pressure on the companies to be more transparent about the life of games.


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Producer: Dave James

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