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i m craig melvin and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. the neighborhood ha everything a burglary wanted t find, private yards, wealthy homes and she had the worst o possible luck, in that h picked her yes i d like to report an attempted break in - a mother, home alone. cops raced to her front door a she walks into an ambush in he backyard how does somebody die in matter of seconds with officer around her home? it was surreal, it wa awful. your first thought of tha time it s a burglary gone wrong. but the burglar caugh red-handed starts pointing fingers. this is a guy who aspire to be a hit man - she was a sitting target. does it now mean that you charge them all with effort now the detectives lay a trap we triedd to play cat and mouse. we re getting reall paranoid about being - one are you wired will they catch their prey? you hold your breath, the world s gonna stop this. you never think it s goin to be you. oh ....
it s estimated 40% of all crime in england and wales is fraud. hello, it s the police, open up. fraud, it is a national security issue. - it s funding other organised crime. | you look back now and you think, how stupid were we? yeah. but at that moment in time, it was. ..it was quite terrifying. every year, fraudsters relieve us of an estimated £5 billion. last year in kent alone, 12,000 frauds were reported. panorama s been filming there for almost a year with the kent police fraud squad. the groups that operate tend to be from london. the whole of kent, it is targeted because it s a quickjourney for them to come and pick up the cash. we ve also got quite an aged population, again, which is who they look to target, often. so it sort ofjust goes hand in hand with the sort of population type. police are increasingly worried about something they call courierfraud. it begins with a call from a fraudster pretending to be a police officer or bank official, and ends with a ....