Published Date 22/06/18 12:53
This month is Scams Awaress Month, a national campaign encouraging people to report and talk about scams. We've unearthed an early example of a scam from the 19th Century known as the 'Spanish Prisoner' or the 'Spanish Swindle'. In our archive we have 5 letters plus a fake ‘Act of Notification’ document sent to an unknown recipient who probably lived in the Plymouth...
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