Compensation scheme for victims of online fraud

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    If you've been a victim of online fraud and receive an email purportedly from The Police, ‘Fraud Intelligence Unit’, ‘National Fraud Intelligence Bureau’., etc. advising you that you're entitled to claim from a new ‘compensation fund’ and asking for your personal financial details so you can compensated for your losses, do not reply, as it's just another scam and they'll clean you out yet again!
     
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      A good post @Scrungee :blue thumb:

      Never reply to any emails that ask you for personal financial details - even if you've been dealing with your bank about something.

      No reputable business or organisation will ask you for your details to be sent in an email. Even if you have been dealing with your bank about something they will never ask for the details in an email. If they really need some info they may send you an email asking you to contact them in your normal manner - calling in to a branch, by telephone (using the phone number you normally would use or one in the directory) or any other safe means that you may have used or organised.

      If they phone you for any reason and ask for information, however minor, you should refuse to answer and then call them on the normal number (not the one they called on or have given you).
       
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        I thought this scam a particularly devious/malicious one, as it's targeted at people who'd been caught before, so might make the same mistake again.

        P.S. My wife's previous employment included helping people who'd been cleaned out by financial scams, and reckons many would get caught out again jumping at this so called opportunity for compensation.
         
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