Two scam victims lose over £1m pension savings each to fraudsters

Kim Kaveh
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Two pension scam victims have lost more than £1m in savings each to fraudsters, data from Action Fraud reveals.

The intelligence, gathered by members of the multi-agency Project Bloom group, comes after separate figures last year revealed the average victim of pension scams lost £91,000 each to fraudsters in...

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