This month marks the fifth anniversary of our Pledge to Combat Pension Scams campaign. The threat of scammers is ever-present, and trustees and administrators have a crucial role to play in protecting their members by making the Pledge. While national initiatives like the BBC’s Scam Safe week – which we are supporting this week – help raise awareness, it’s the pensions industry who are best positioned to warn and protect pension savers.
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Fraudsters are using increasingly sophisticated impersonation tactics to target savers’ pensions.
The enhanced intelligence we and our partners are developing means we can detect these threats and take action to prevent harm earlier. What we are seeing makes it clear that schemes must tighten their security – and take action to protect their members.
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The substantial jail terms secured against two fraudsters show how TPR and the courts will take tough action against pension scammers.
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If the pandemic has shown us anything it’s that the future cannot be predicted with any certainty – nobody has that magical crystal ball.
However, come what may, we are committed to striving to ensure all pension savers are protected and the start of 2022 presents an opportunity to look forward to what the new year will bring to workplace pensions.
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We’ve published the first podcast in our new series TPR Talks.
In this first podcast of the series, Margaret Snowdon, Chair of the Pension Scams Industry Group and Nicola Parish, Executive Director of Frontline Regulation join us to discuss the threat of pension scams.
In my last blog, I said the world had changed with a move away from defined benefit (DB) pensions.
From fighting pension scams to tackling Environmental, Social, and Governance, 2020 will be another fast-moving year of change full of positive opportunities and challenges we must all strive to meet.
Pension scams can happen to anyone, with scammers using sophisticated techniques to con people out of their hard-earned retirement cash.
