Loan seekers and bargain holiday hunters are among thousands being targeted by online fraud scams, authorities have warned. Official statistics reveal that 17,430 cases of online fraud have been reported in England and Wales so far in 2014 – an average of more than 3,000 a month or 100 a day. Online scams were the […]
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Top 10 Online Scams
Top 10 Online Scams – Online scamming has these days have become more then simple crimes these days. Criminals see them as a business more than a crime committed by them. 2012 saw a tremendous increase in the scams carried by the criminals, not only the scams got increased but they also got sophisticated too. […]
UK struggling to cope with rising online fraud
Online fraud is “exponentially” rising in the UK, according to the City of London Police. Commissioner Adrian Leppard revealed that around half of the £70 billion (around $114 billion) lost to fraud in the UK each year was through online scams. Retailers have also been hit hard, with online fraud increasing 30 percent in the […]