Scam apps can be surprisingly easy to create. The programme Talking Point heads for Vietnam, one of the world’s top 10 cybercrime hotspots, and discovers that the person behind that malware app could be a teen with a computer.
Nary a day goes by without news of someone being scammed. Banks have rolled out a wave of anti-scam measures that may be imperfect but necessary, says Reed Smith lawyer Bryan Tan.