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UK's national fraud and cybercrime reporting service, launched to replace Action Fraud and gather more detailed reports from victims and industry.
The UK's Report Fraud service is urging the public onto passkeys after email and social media takeover losses rose to £6.3m in 2025/6 from £1.2m. The NCSC is backing the switch as a defence against phishing.
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Reported losses to criminals who hijack UK email and social media accounts reached 6.3 million pounds in 2025-26, up from 1.2 million, police data shows. The base is small, but fraud that borrows a person's identity gives employers a reason to review how staff log in.
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Lisa Riley lost 16 pounds to a fake US Esta site and has had scam calls and texts every week in the 17 months since. For anyone booking US travel, the fee is the small part of the loss, because details typed into a lookalike site are sold on and reused.
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ESET's Jake Moore says a person can inspect a link exactly as they were taught and still be fooled, because one Cyrillic character renders as the Latin one.
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City of London Police recorded a 417% rise in account-hack losses to £6.3m in the year to March. The arithmetic underneath it shows the average loss per victim halving as small cases got recorded for the first time.
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