{"id":6781,"date":"2019-01-27T03:48:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T03:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-cyber-crime-victims-lose-190000-a-day\/"},"modified":"2019-01-27T03:48:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T03:48:57","slug":"uk-cyber-crime-victims-lose-190000-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-cyber-crime-victims-lose-190000-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"UK cyber-crime victims lose \u00a3190,000 a day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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More than \u00a3190,000 a day is lost in the UK by victims of cyber-crime, police statistics show.<\/p>\n

More than a third of victims in that period fell prey to the hacking of social media and email accounts. <\/p>\n

Action Fraud said \u00a334.6m was reported to be stolen from victims between April and September 2018, a 24% increase on the previous six months. <\/p>\n

The City of London Police, which runs Action Fraud, has warned people to keep separate passwords for online accounts.<\/p>\n

The figures show 13,357 people in the UK reported cyber crimes over six months.<\/p>\n

More than 5,000 of those people were hacked via their social media and email accounts, costing victims \u00a314.8m. <\/p>\n

Commander Karen Baxter said cyber criminals were targeting people’s social media accounts “in a bid to make money and steal personal details”, adding it could leave victims “at risk of identity theft”.<\/p>\n

Action Fraud is the reporting centre for people scammed, defrauded or who experienced cyber crime in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

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‘We lost nearly \u00a310k to TV licence scammers’<\/h2>\n

When Jerry Tack received an email saying the TV licence needed paying, he didn’t think twice about it.<\/p>\n

Nothing seemed suspicious about the website he clicked on, so he entered his bank details – and began a chain of events that would lose him \u00a39,900.<\/p>\n

Jerry, from Hampshire, was among thousands contacted in what police called a “particularly nasty” fraud.<\/p>\n

But the banks say they cannot reimburse customers who have mistakenly authorised payments to fraudsters.<\/p>\n

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Commander Baxter said people should “keep a strong, separate password for their email accounts” and use the latest software and app updates. <\/p>\n

“Always be suspicious of unsolicited requests for your personal or financial information and never call numbers or follow links provided in unsolicited texts or emails,” she said.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month Action Fraud reported a “convincing” TV licence email scam had led to more than 5,000 complaints<\/a> over a three-month period. <\/p>\n

Emails with headlines such as “correct your licensing information” would direct users to a fake TV licensing website. <\/p>\n

The site then asked victims to provide their payment details, including their account number, sort code, and card verification value (CVV) code on the back of their card.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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