Could you spot a scammer?
Aug 11, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS: KARA O’NEILL
It’s estimated that fraud cost the UK almost £190 billion in 2019, with an estimated 3.8 million incidents in the 12 months prior to March of that year, according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
In the majority of those, there’d been no face-to-face contact between victim and offender, with scammers carrying out their crimes online, by email or over the phone. So how do they do it, and what can we do to protect ourselves?
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On 28 August 2009, Edward Putman
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