Think Jessica became a registered charity supported by countless agencies, organisations and police forces nationwide, which joined forces to make people aware of the danger, and financial implications, of scams which target people in their own homes.

The charity organised national poster campaigns. Scam Mail is Black Mail, Silence of the Scams, Scam Trap and Vulture Crime were all hard-hitting posters which have been displayed on billboards in train stations, supermarkets and shopping centres nationally.

Think Jessica banners warning people about scams have been displayed on hundreds of buses.

Over the years Think Jessica gained a lot of media interest. Marilyn became a regular face on TV, giving interviews on GMTV, This Morning, BBC Breakfast, Daybreak, Tonight, Panorama, You’ve Been Scammed, One Show, Fake Britain, Crime Watch, Inside Out, Working Lunch, ITV’s Hunting the Doorstep Con Men, Sunday Politics, You & Yours, Jeremy Vine and many other national and local TV and radio programmes.

She gave presentations to highlight the mindset of victims like her mother; and the frustration and helplessness faced by the relatives of ‘silent’ victims of fraud.

In 2013 Marilyn was voted ITV’s Lorraine’s Inspirational Woman of the Year. In 2014 she received an OBE for her voluntary work with the Metropolitan police, which resulted in the first seizure of scam mail as it entered the UK.

In October 2019 Marilyn decided she had achieved what she set out to do, and it was time to close the charity and concentrate on writing educational material.

She is still available to book for presentations, diary permitting.