Dirty Rotten Scammers
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- Episode
- Episode 8
- Broadcast Info
- 2022 (44 mins)
- Description
- Having previously gone through the experience of someone trying to clone her bank cards Sharon was alarmed when she had a call from an online market place fraud department, and quickly got them off the phone. But the next day when a call came from her bank reporting suspicious activity, she responded quickly and transferred money to a safe account, only to discover she’d lost £2000 and the whole thing was a scam. Lynne was looking to invest her money in a reliable investment but found herself being pressured by fraudsters to add thousands of pounds she simply didn’t have. After the criminals took over her laptop after downloading a piece of tech Lynne is panic stricken about just how much information they may have on her. Also in the episode, we follow Sussex police as they install call blocking technology in a vulnerable victim’s home, to keep scam calls at bay.
- Genre
- Banking; Criminology; Policing; Technology
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The Open University, "Dirty Rotten Scammers". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/242141 (Accessed 09 Jan 2025)