A joint venture between Gwynedd Council’s Trading Standards and North Wales Police is raising awareness about the underhand tactics used by scammers.

As part of this project a training event has been held in Porthmadog, which provided training on how members of the public can become a ‘Friend against Scams’. The knowledge gained from the training will enable those who attended to become a ‘Scam Marshal’ and empower them to identify the various types of scams and to offer advice and assistance to those in their community that were being targeted.

John Eden Jones, Gwynedd Council’s public protection enforcement officer, said: “It was great to see so many people turning up to the event. I hope that they learnt a great deal and will be more wary in the future when it comes to various scams. The more people in Gwynedd that we can train to become a ‘friend against scams’ the better.”

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