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<br /><p><strong></strong></p><p>The Department funds the Citizens Advice Service
to provide valuable advice to consumers, including how to avoid scams. Citizens Advice
also lead the annual Scams Awareness Month, working with Trading Standards to help
give consumers the confidence to spot and report a scam.</p><br /><p>Trading Standards
Officers have powers to take action under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading
Regulations 2008 against salesmen who use misleading practices and aggressive pressure
selling. Additionally, National Trading Standards Scambuster Teams take action against
large scale national and regional scammers, including those who exploit the elderly
and vulnerable through the sale of substandard or unnecessary mobility aids.</p><br
/><p>Since 2014 the Consumer Protection (Amendment) Regulations 2014 introduced important
new rights for consumers to take their own action against such traders to get their
money back.</p><p><strong></strong></p>
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