this is mum s house. lived here since 1976. that s quite nice, actually. certainly happy memories with mum and dad here. yeah. that don t look too good, that one, does it? dad took early retirement and lived life to the full. erm. ..and unfortunately, he died when he was 68. jo and corinne s dad, trevor, was an engineer and amateur racing driver. when he died in 2012, carol didn t have to worry about money. he had a lovely pension to leave mum and, you know, they had a place in new zealand that he sold just before he died and there was a lot of money from that. you know, she was set up. but just a few years after her husband died, carol was targeted by fraudsters, selling her fake investment schemes. one of mum s financial advisers was worried. mum had asked to release more money. and he was slightly worried
from sending out some of those cases as well. in kent, 12,000 reports were made to action fraud last year. just 500 were passed on to police. so out of those 500, when we look at going to the criminaljustice system, around 4% is what we call our detection rate, which means they ended up in charges from the crown prosecution service. 4% detection rate means just 20 possible court cases from 12,000 complaints. action fraud says it s planning improvements. we are actually implementing new technology for action fraud for 2024. we need to be much better at explaining to victims how the process works and what s happening with their cases. some people become repeat victims of fraud. ..likejo and corinne s mum, carol, who has dementia. this is mum s house.
he s told her she s investing her money in diamonds. again, her bank statements show the extent of the fraud. this is one file we ve found, which mum s been making monthly transfers to. 240, the 12th april. the 20th april, 290. another one in may, 480. it s every.every page that you look at is more payments. they amount to between 1,500 and 2,000 a month. and this has been going on for about nine years. all bank transfers. so about 25,000 a year. and she s still received nothing. carol s still receiving calls from the fraudster, who calls himself david. she s already paid him at least £200,000. but he wants more.
lived here since 1976. that s quite nice, actually. certainly happy memories with mum and dad here. yeah. that don t look too good, that one, does it? dad took early retirement and lived life to the full. erm. ..and unfortunately, he died when he was 68. jo and corinne s dad, trevor, was an engineer and amateur racing driver. when he died in 2012, carol didn t have to worry about money. he had a lovely pension to leave mum and, you know, they had a place in new zealand that he sold just before he died and there was a lot of money from that. you know, she was set up. but just a few years after her husband died, carol was targeted by fraudsters, selling her fake investment schemes. one of mum s financial advisers was worried. mum had asked to release more money. and he was slightly worried
misinforming and polarizing users through its recommendations also known as algorithms. though the fake carol never expressed interest in conspiracy theories, it only took two days for facebook to recommend that she join groups dedicated to the qanon conspiracy theory. carol didn t follow the recommended qanon groups, but nbc s brandy writes, quote, whatever algorithm that determines how she should interact with the platform within one week smith s page was full of groups that violated facebook own rules including those with hate speech and disinformation. it s one of four explosive pieces that dropped last night that examined the social media giants role in spreading misinformation and conspiracies. to discuss this let s bring back our panel and we re joined by a technology reporter for the new