Remote banking fraud increased the most in 2015,costing consumers more than £168m, according to Financial Fraud Action UKFraudsters managed to steal £755m from British consumers and financial institutions during 2015 – a 26% increase on the year before. Financial Fraud Action UK said the biggest growth area was remote banking fraud, or which typically sees fraudsters posing as bank staff in a tender to con people into sending them money via online banking. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com