Jess Kelly: Online scammers will be out in force in run-up to Christmas

“Just don’t click on the link.” I find myself saying that sentence approximately ten times a day to friends, family and followers plagued by scam text messages. You know the ones that tell you that you owe a very specific yet random amount of money to a courier company, or that your card has been frozen due to “suspicious activity”?

I’ve received eight of them myself in the past six days and each time I ...