Royston Crow: Charity ML alert – a new scam targets small UK charities with the ‘overpayment’ trick

In this scheme, fraudsters pose as donors and make an apparently generous donation—typically around £5,000—only to “accidentally” send a much larger amount. They then contact the charity claiming an error and request the surplus to be returned. In doing so, the charity unknowingly launders criminal funds by sending back “clean” money from its own account…