North Yorkshire Police

Emails and texts messages warning about scams circulate all the time. Many contain useful advice, but sometimes the warnings are out of date or even untrue.

As with anything in life, take some basic precautions to protect yourself when you use the internet - whether you're buying or selling online, or simply browsing.

Follow our top five tips to help protect your laptop from theft while you're out and about.

The Olympic economy is potentially worth hundreds of thousands of pounds to organised criminals.

Phishing involves email or pop-up messages that claim to be from a legitimate business or organisation - but are in fact bogus.

Recognising the growing threat of fraud, Government has come together with leading industry players to help people better protect themselves.