Behind its paywall, the Daily Telegraph carries a story about a scam to con the already gullible, Reform UK Party Ltd ‘members’. A non-paywalled version of the article can be read here.
The pretend political party (it’s actually a limited company in which dodgy former MEP Nigel Farage is the majority shareholder. Ed.) issued an emergency email on Thursday evening after a fraudulent Telegram account bearing Mr Farage’s name told members to donate £200 to it to become a “VIP member” of the party.
A spokesperson for theAt present we are only aware that this scammer is working on Telegram, however we are acutely aware that they could be operating on various other social media and messaging platforms.
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This is a criminal fraudulent endeavour and we are getting in touch with Telegram and the police to have it shut down.
Your ‘umble scribe would add that anyone foolish enough to have handed money to a charlatan like Farage has already been scammed.