Richard Tice's Sunday Sermon: A huge scam is going round this Christmas. Here's what you need to watch out for

Hello and welcome to Britain's favourite Sunday sermon. Yes, this is my last Sunday sermon of 2023.

What a year. It has been extraordinary in so many different ways and I want to share with you something a little bit different today, which is also extraordinary and shocking at this time of Christmas.

Lots of people out buying presents, lot going on, a lot of home deliveries, a lot of parcels being delivered, gifts being delivered. And I thought, I'll just share with you the grim experience of a relative of mine who was the victim of an incredibly sophisticated fraud by the scammers.

And this is a scam which is called the authorised push payment scam. It's well known. It's very sophisticated. They're deliberately targeting young people, teenagers, people in their 20s, relatively new to the world of banking, more likely to fall victim to it.

And here's how it works. You get a phone call from someone claiming to be at the post office. You've got a letter that's short of a pounds worth of stamp, or a parcel from a delivery company, and it's a pound short. So they ask that you make a payment of a pound from your bank account to their bank account.

And that's the first thing to watch out for. Don't do it. Don't make that payment. It's the beginning of a scam and I hate these fraudsters, these scammers, these rip off merchants.

Watch Richard Tice's full Sunday Sermon for December 17 2023 above.