A new approach known as “silent stealing”, where fraudsters seek to steal a small amount of money from a large number of people, appears to be on the rise as the UK keeps battling the Covid-19 crisis.
The increase in such schemes has been identified in a report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank. The report says scam artists favor the silent steal because victims are less likely to report small losses. What’s more, police and other officials could potentially struggle to make the connection between individual small-scale con jobs and larger schemes.
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