Summary
Fraudsters are always trying to get at our money, and the pandemic has changed their tactics and their access to our data.
Felicity Hannah and our expert panel discuss the latest fraud figures, how to protect yourself, what your rights are, and what to do if you're targeted by scammers.
Reporter: Dan Whitworth
Producer: Drew Hyndman
Editor: Justin Bones and Elisabeth Mahy
Transcript
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| 0:43.8 | Hello, welcome to this Moneybox Live podcast, the program about your money. |
| 0:48.7 | More money than ever was stolen through fraud in 2021. |
| 0:52.4 | That's according to a new report today from UK finance, which is |
| 0:55.7 | the banking and financial sector trade body. Fraud is the financial issue that no one really |
| 1:01.6 | thinks about until they actually fall victim to it. When they do, it can be devastating. It can cause |
| 1:06.8 | embarrassment, a huge amount of admin and anguish that goes beyond the loss of money. |
| 1:12.2 | Today on Moneybox Live, we're going to dig deep into the murky world of fraud. |
| 1:17.0 | But before we take a call and before we meet our panel, I want to hear more about that new report today. |
| 1:22.6 | So Moneybox reporter Dan Whitworth has busted out of his Saturday slot on our weekend program and joins us now to chat through it. |
| 1:30.5 | Dan, hello. Hello, Fliss. |
| 1:32.0 | What do we need to know? |
| 1:33.6 | Okay, so this report, it's 70-odd pages. I've got a copy of it here with me. |
| 1:37.5 | The headline is this. Authorised fraud when victims are tricked and manipulated into sending criminals money |
| 1:44.1 | when they're pretending to be offering investments in cryptocurrency, for example, |
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