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Trading Standards is warning consumers of a scam circulating involving UKASH vouchers.
UKASH is a genuine company where you can use vouchers to pay for goods and services online but only with the approved merchants listed on their website. You simply purchase a UKASH voucher bearing a 19 digit code and use the voucher on sites that accept UKASH payment. The recent scam has targeted people looking for loans online.
This advice comes after a consumer applied for a loan online and was instructed by the trader to pay a fee of £330 with a UKASH voucher to release the money. The consumer never received the loan.
Our advice is never transfer money to loan companies using money transfer service or vouchers and treat your UKASH voucher code just like cash. Once you have paid using vouchers it is difficult to stop the payment. However, if you have been a victim of this scam then you should contact UKASH immediately on: 0808 234 6244
You can also report the scam to action fraud on 0300 123 2040 or report it online at www.actionfraud.police.uk
For general consumer advice contact the Citizens Advice Consumer Helpline on 08454 04 05 06.
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Margaret Hodgson (Cumbria County Council, Administrator, Cumbria)
Trading Standards is warning consumers of a scam circulating involving UKASH vouchers.
UKASH is a genuine company where you can use vouchers to pay for goods and services online but only with the approved merchants listed on their website. You simply purchase a UKASH voucher bearing a 19 digit code and use the voucher on sites that accept UKASH payment. The recent scam has targeted people looking for loans online.
This advice comes after a consumer applied for a loan online and was instructed by the trader to pay a fee of £330 with a UKASH voucher to release the money. The consumer never received the loan.
Our advice is never transfer money to loan companies using money transfer service or vouchers and treat your UKASH voucher code just like cash. Once you have paid using vouchers it is difficult to stop the payment. However, if you have been a victim of this scam then you should contact UKASH immediately on: 0808 234 6244
You can also report the scam to action fraud on 0300 123 2040 or report it online at www.actionfraud.police.uk
For general consumer advice contact the Citizens Advice Consumer Helpline on 08454 04 05 06.
Message sent by
Margaret Hodgson (Cumbria County Council, Administrator, Cumbria)