UK cyber-crime victims lose £190,000 a day

When Jerry Tack received an email saying the TV licence needed paying, he didn’t think twice about it.

Nothing seemed suspicious about the website he clicked on, so he entered his bank details – and began a chain of events that would lose him £9,900.

Jerry, from Hampshire, was among thousands contacted in what police called a “particularly nasty” fraud.

But the banks say they cannot reimburse customers who have mistakenly authorised payments to fraudsters.

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