By Sean Poulter Consumer Affairs Editor For The Daily Mail
Published: 00:27 BST, 20 June 2019 | Updated: 00:27 BST, 20 June 2019
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Fraud is spiralling out of control, with almost 10,000 new cases every day.
Alarming details of the nation’s fraud hotspots involving dating scams, computer virus attacks and bogus tradesmen are revealed today.
The total number of fraud incidents in England and Wales was an astonishing 3.6million in 2018, according to the Office for National Statistics – a 12.6 per cent rise on 2017.
The figures were compiled by consumer experts at Which? and are far higher than the 276,129 cases reported over 12 months to Action Fraud, which is supposed to work with police forces to co-ordinate fraud detection.
Alarming details of the nation’s fraud hotspots involving dating scams, computer virus attacks (stock image) and bogus tradesmen reveal there almost 10,000 new cases every day
The discrepancy suggests many victims do not report the crime to Action Fraud, either because they do not know
