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Top 10 online-enabled frauds hitting British wallets to the tune of £670 million, with high emotional cost

51% of Britons have experienced an online crime: 'Don’t be a victim’ is theme for Get Safe Online Week 2014.

  • 51% of Britons have experienced an online crime
  • half of victims of online crime ‘very or extremely violated’ by their experience
  • 54% of Britons now want to unmask the cyber crooks behind online crimes
  • ‘Don’t be a victim’ is the theme for Get Safe Online Week 2014
 

Don't be a victim: simple steps to Get Safe Online

Get Safe Online, the public private joint internet safety initiative, yesterday revealed both the financial and the emotional cost of cybercrime. In a specially commissioned poll of 2,000 people by Vision Critical for Get Safe Online Week (20 to 26 October), half (50%) of those who said they were a victim of cybercrime (including online fraud or cases resulting in economic loss; ID theft; hacking or deliberate distribution of viruses; and online abuse) said they felt either ‘very’ or ‘extremely violated’ by their ordeal.

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