Public urged to help fight mail scams
28th November 2022 • Posted inNational Trading Standards is encouraging members of the public to send in scam mail in a ‘Scamnesty’ running until 23 December.
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Crackdown on counterfeits as UK shoppers hunt for bargains
24th November 2022 • Posted inA Black Friday crackdown by enforcement bodies and Meta has been launched to remove listings of potential counterfeit products from Instagram in the run-up to Black Friday.
Read MoreLosing just £100 to a scam would tip 13 million into crisis
3rd November 2022 • Posted inNational Trading Standards highlights threats to look out for as criminals exploit cost-of-living fears.
Read MoreUK victims of international mass marketing scam to be compensated from recovered monies
19th July 2022 • Posted inCompensation roll-out begins following landmark investigation.
Read MoreNational Trading Standards publishes guidance on Part A material information for property listings
12th July 2022 • Posted inThe National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has published new guidance to help agents ensure they are meeting their requirements under Part A of the process to improve material information in property listings.
Read MoreConsumer Minister becomes millionth recruit to scam-fighting initiative Friends Against Scams
16th June 2022 • Posted inNational Trading Standards scheme reaches ‘one million Friends’ milestone and saves society £59m.
Read More‘Price on application’ in property listings deemed unlawful as National Trading Standards publishes opinion
5th May 2022 • Posted inNational Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has today published its opinion*, developed with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), that the use of ‘POA’ or ‘price on application’ in property listings (principally sales listings) contravenes consumer protection legislation.
Read MoreNational Trading Standards appoints new Chair
8th April 2022 • Posted inThe National Trading Standards Board is delighted to confirm that Lord Michael Bichard will take over as the Chair of National Trading Standards from 1 June 2022.
Read More13 million illegal cigarettes taken off the streets in first year of major operation
9th March 2022 • Posted inIllegal tobacco products worth more than £7 million have been seized in the first year* of a major crackdown on the illicit tobacco trade by National Trading Standards (NTS) and HMRC.
Read MoreMaterial information for property listings announced
21st February 2022 • Posted inA property's council tax band or rate and the property price and tenure information (for sales) must be included on all property listings by the end of May 2022 and these data fields will start to appear on portals over the coming weeks.These changes represent the first phase of a project by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team, in partnership with industry leaders and the UK’s major property portals*, to define what constitutes material information for property listings.
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