“8,000 reports of phishing scams received every month” states Action Fraud
New data released by Action Fraud and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (which are both run by the City of London Police) shows that, increasingly, fraudsters are using phishing as a means to defraud people across the UK. Last year (January-December 2015), the Fraud and Cyber Crime Reporting Centre received an average of 8,000 reports per month, with 96,699 people reporting that they had received a phishing scam e-mail.
Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information, for example usernames, passwords and credit card details or steal money by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication such as an e-mail, a pop-up message, a phone call or perhaps a text message.
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