Dirty Rotten Scammers

Episode
Episode 4
Broadcast Info
2022 (44 mins)
Description
Tom runs a business selling beauty products online and noticed a significant shortfall in his accounts not long after he’d clicked on a link he believed to be from an online auction site. Over 3 months, in incremental amounts, scammers had taken £14000 from Tom’s accounts - and failed to recover the money. Now he wants to be sure there’s nothing else left online that might leave him exposed to future scams and hacks. Caroline transferred almost £1000 to the "Lloyds Fraud Team" safe account.... But quickly realized she’d been scammed - the team of ethical hackers are on the hunt for why she may have been targeted and how she can avoid being caught out again.
Genre
Banking; Criminology; Policing; Technology

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The Open University, "Dirty Rotten Scammers". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/242137 (Accessed 09 Jan 2025)