
How Can Scammers Get Their Hands On Your National Insurance Information?
Scammers have been calling random people on the street while posing as representatives of the National Crime Agency, or the “National Office for Serious Crimes,” and then using a web of lies and threats to try to persuade you to divulge personal information. The con artist then misinforms them that his National Insurance number had been used to claim Universal Credit (NINo). The conman threatened to have him pay back thousands of pounds in benefits that had been fraudulently claimed and put him in danger of going to jail if he didn’t give them his personal information so they could “correct” the situation.