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British consumers were scammed out of a record amount last year and police are struggling under the workload, according to the director general of the National Economic Crime Centre.
Graeme Biggar said criminals had found it easy to bombard the public with scam texts, emails and phone calls trying to steal their money.
Fraudsters used the pandemic to steal a record £479m from almost 150,000 victims in 2020. Telegraph Money looks at how you can avoid the same fate.
Bid to make Facebook and Amazon pay legal price for online scams as Scots fraud soars during lockdown
Bid to make Facebook and Amazon pay legal price for online scams as Scots fraud soars during lockdown A coalition of organisations is calling on ministers to bring in new laws to make online platforms such as Facebook and Amazon legally responsible for online scams - as it emerged cases of fraud in Scotland have soared during the pandemic. The Dunfermline-based Carnegie UK Trust is one of 17 organisations who are warning that a failure to make online platforms such as Facebook and Amazon directly responsible for any scam content on their site risks the UK failing in its ambition to be the safest place in the world to be online.
Rachel Elwell, 50, lost £113,000 after months of online messages, calls & emails
Export manager from Brownhills, West Midlands is latest romance fraud victim
After striking up an instant connection, photos appeared to show a loving man
A scammer convinced her that dangerous loan sharks had trapped them abroad
Using bank loans and her savings, Ms Elwell thought she was saving a man s life