PHONE SCAMMERS TARGETING UK ELDERLY ON “INDUSTRIAL SCALE”
July 22nd, 2024
Elderly adults in the UK are facing an unprecedented wave of telephone fraud, according to a new study from the University of Portsmouth, based on over 18 months of research with 1,997 participants. Commissioned by UK elderly loneliness charity Re-engage, ‘Fear and phoning: Telephones, fraud, and older adults in the UK' (1), found at least two-thirds of respondents had experienced at least one fraud attempt by various means in the past six months, while 40% reported frequent attempts, occurring daily, weekly or monthly. Nearly three-quarters of the attempts ...
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