Mail, phone scams hit 3m
China Daily | Updated: 2008-09-09 07:52
About 3 million Britons are being cheated of 3.5 billion pounds ($6.16 billion) a year by fraudsters who solicit money by letter, e-mail, text and telephone, the UK Office of Fair Trading, said yesterday.
Fewer than one in 20 victims report their experience, but trading watchdogs hope to help consumers fight back after a survey revealed the scale of the problem for the first time.
A nationwide campaign in February asking the public for examples of scam mailings they had received showed just how rife rip-offs have become.
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