Police To Text Fraud Victims

[over_the_hill]

BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63736573

A good idea or yet another opportunity for scammers.
I am inclined towards the latter.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

A Nigerian Prince has been asked to send the texts so make sure to click the link!

[Lotobear]

So plod decide to 'tackle' fraud by adopting the scammers contact method of choice...mmmmm, that'll do it!

Sub plot - this is a really simple and cheap way to make it look as if were are doing something.

[MesoForm]

To be fair, we keep moaning about the police ignoring fraud and nothing happening if a bank pays back the money so this could well be them trying to get the word out that they do take it seriously, even if from a victim's point of view often it appears they're not bothered.

[Eric Mc]

People want actual involvement by the police - not virtual involvement.

Watch the scammers latching on to this as their next tactic.

[pquinn]

Lotobear said:

So plod decide to 'tackle' fraud by adopting the scammers contact method of choice...mmmmm, that'll do it!

Plenty of banks follow really bad comms practice too - in fact so do plenty of people who really should know better.

It's really annoying and is a big reason scams work.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Dear Michael, its the Police here please click on the action fraud link to initial your claim against the arrested person's...

[foxbody-87]

I was defrauded out of several thousand pounds last year by means of 70+ payments to an online betting account.
The bank paid it back immediately and I never heard about it again - do they do much in the way of following it up or is it often just written off?

[Terminator X]

Lol any text with a link is either ignored or deleted.

TX.

[pork911]

foxbody-87 said:

I was defrauded out of several thousand pounds last year by means of 70+ payments to an online betting account.
The bank paid it back immediately and I never heard about it again - do they do much in the way of following it up or is it often just written off?

you'll be fine