Online fraud tops crime list but anti-fraud campaigns give confused message

James Phillips
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Online fraud has become the most commonly reported crime across England and Wales, yet the government, law enforcement agencies and the industry overlook it, the National Audit Office (NAO) warns.

Around one in six (16%) of all estimated crime incidents related to cyber fraud in the year ending 30 September 2016, totalling 1.9 million, it estimated. These included those crimes where scammers...

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