{"id":13,"date":"2006-12-14T08:16:37","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T16:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2006-12-14T08:16:37","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T16:16:37","slug":"online-banking-fraud-up-8000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2006\/12\/online-banking-fraud-up-8000\/","title":{"rendered":"Online banking fraud &#8216;up 8,000%&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams in the past two years, the government&#8217;s financial watchdog has warned.<\/strong> <\/font><font size=\"2\">The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was &#8220;very concerned&#8221; about the growth in &#8220;phishing&#8221;. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Phishing involves using fake websites to lure people into revealing their bank account numbers. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The amount stolen is still relatively small but it is set to go up by 90% for the second year running, peers heard. <!-- E SF --> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Between January and June 2005, the number of recorded phishing incidents was 312, the Lords science and technology committee was told. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The figure for the same period this year was 5,059, according to banking trade body Apacs figures. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The amount of cash stolen in the first half of 2006 was \u00c2\u00a323.2m, the committee was told, and was likely to be \u00c2\u00a322.5m in the second half of the year. <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Read More [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/6177555.stm\">BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams in the past two years, the government&#8217;s financial watchdog has warned. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was &#8220;very concerned&#8221; about the growth in &#8220;phishing&#8221;. Phishing involves using fake websites to lure people into revealing their bank account numbers. The amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}