Live Scam Alerts
Real-time alerts drawn from official UK sources. Sourced, summarised, and given a plain-English advice note so you know exactly what to do — not just that something exists.
Independent. Free. UK-focused.
About Scamalot
UK fraud and scam intelligence — calm, factual, and on your side.
"The information exists. Someone just needs to put it where people can find it."
— Arthur Ward, founder
Scammers are organised, adaptive, and good at their jobs. They test new approaches, drop what stops working, and move on. The people being targeted are often the last to know a new wave has started.
Scamalot exists to close that gap. We monitor the sources that track scam activity across the UK — the NCSC, the FCA, Trading Standards, Which?, Action Fraud and others — and we publish what they find, quickly, in plain English, with practical advice attached.
No advertising. No agenda. No fee. If you're in the UK and you want to know what the crooks are doing this week, this is the place.
What's here
Three things Scamalot does
Education
Real phishing emails, smishing texts, and fraud attempts — annotated. Every red flag explained. The goal isn't to alarm people; it's to make the patterns obvious once you've seen them.
Scam Checker
Got a suspicious text, email, or link? Paste it in and we'll check it. Domain age, URL analysis, brand lookalike detection, social engineering patterns. Plain-English verdict — no jargon.
Behind the site
Arthur Ward
Arthur spent the better part of two decades working in financial crime — the kind of work that involves watching fraud evolve up close, year after year.
The patterns that scammers use, the psychological levers they pull, the organisations they impersonate, the people they target — none of it is a mystery once you've seen enough of it. The problem is that most of that knowledge stays locked inside the industry.
Scamalot is Arthur's attempt to fix that. The criminals have always been organised. The public deserves to be informed.
What this site stands for
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Independent
No advertisers. No affiliation with any financial institution, insurer, or commercial partner. Nothing to sell you.
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Always free
Fraud prevention information should not sit behind a paywall. The alerts, the education, the checker tool — all free.
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No victim-blaming
The people being targeted are not gullible. They are being deceived by professionals. This site always reflects that.
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Sources cited
Every alert links back to its official source. We don't manufacture alarm — we report what the relevant authorities have already found.
Share it around
The site works best as something people share with family — particularly the people in their lives most likely to be targeted. Word of mouth is how fraud prevention actually spreads.