Warning after 20per cent increase in on line & phone frauds Today sees the launch of an important awareness that is new highlighting the hazards of ‘social engineering’ – deception utilized to govern people into a situation where they could be defrauded. The caution will come in the wake of numbers granted because of the nationwide Fraud Intelligence Bureau showing a 21% escalation in reported incidents in year. The campaign will be run by Get Safe on the web together with Barclays, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, City of London Police (COLP), CIFAS and Financial Fraud Action British (FFAUK). Featuring television advertising for the time that is first Get Safe Online’s 10-year history, it urges visitors to ‘think twice before
