Awareness: Fraud: The Public Threat – Tonight

15 Sep 2019 9:36 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

In May this year, Tonight reporter Helen Skelton received an email. It appeared to be from TV Licensing, and said that it was her ‘last day to remain licensed’ but that her direct debit had bounced. It instructed her to pay an overdue balance of £11.95. Little did Helen know: when she clicked to pay that small fee, it would actually begin a chain of events which would allow criminals to steal an astonishing £70,000 from her bank account.

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-09-12/fraud-the-public-threat-tonight/


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