#scam

Paphos police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of impersonating a doctor and obtaining money under false pretenses. The 34-year-old is suspected of being connected with at least two cases ...

A 75-year-old woman was duped into giving €7,000 to a man who claimed a relative of hers needed urgent surgery, the second victim of such a scam in the past few ...

Paphos police are warning of a new scam after a 73-year-old woman reported that she had given €10,000 to a man who had telephoned claiming to be a hospital director so ...

The Cyprus Post on Friday warned that fake messages asking for payment of custom duties are being sent to the public by email. “Cyprus Post has no involvement and urge ...

Police on Friday reiterated their public warning over a telephone scam following reports that scammers pretend to be Microsoft operators to access people’s computers and their bank account information. ...

Limassol police are investigating the theft of €15,000 from a woman’s bank account through an online scam. Police said the complainant told them that a woman speaking English called the ...

Telephony providers Primetel are advising subscribers to exercise caution with an ongoing phone scam with calls made from unknown numbers, particularly overseas numbers. In a press release, the company said ...

Paphos police are investigating after a 49-year-old man said he lost €28,000 to an online scam. The complainant and his business partners deposited the money in a bank in Spain with ...

Hellenic Bank on Tuesday warned clients about an upsurge in electronic fraud and urged them not to share any of their details. In an announcement, the bank said that in ...

Police on Sunday said they were investigating the claims of a 24-year-old man that he was robbed by a person who had promised to multiply his money with the use ...

Bank of Cyprus on Tuesday warned clients to be on alert against scammers trying to access their accounts and urged them not share any information. In a written statement, the ...