QUARTER OF UK ADULTS AT RISK OF VISHING
September 2nd, 2013
TELEPHONE scams where fraudsters dupe people into revealing personal and financial information or into making payments into the crook's account may have affected at least 4% of the United Kingdom’s adult population.This is according to estimates from the UK financial industry joint task force Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) which studied this form of phone fraud known as ‘vishing’.It found 23 per cent of people have received cold calls requesting personal or financial information, potentially putting nearly a quarter of UK adults at risk.Older people are ...
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