One in five people in the UK and 14 other countries have been conned by ... trends now
One in five people in the UK and 14 other countries have been conned by ... trends now
Push payment scams were the most common type of fraud, the research showed But over half of respondents didn't believe the issue was a government priority
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One in five people across the UK and 14 other countries were victims of fraud in a two-year period - and many were targeted more than once, a major survey has found.
The most common type of scam was a ‘push payment’, in which the criminal tricks the individual into transferring money over willingly.
Yet over half of the respondents said they didn’t believe the issue was a government priority. The research by the public policy think tank Social Market Foundation was presented at the Global Fraud Summit 2024 yesterday.
