{"id":75720,"date":"2025-05-28T07:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75720"},"modified":"2025-05-28T07:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:33:25","slug":"britain-sees-12-spike-in-fraud-cases-as-banks-battle-1-6-billion-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/28\/britain-sees-12-spike-in-fraud-cases-as-banks-battle-1-6-billion-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain sees 12% spike in fraud cases as banks battle $1.6 billion epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55016\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Advance-fee-fraud-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Advance-fee-fraud-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Advance-fee-fraud-360x240.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Advance-fee-fraud.jpeg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s financial sector saw a record 3.31 million fraud cases in 2024, up 12% on the year before, according to data from industry body UK Finance released on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/britain-sees-12-spike-in-fraud-cases-as-banks-battle-1-6-billion-epidemic\/ar-AA1FBb1b?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=761ff1d7ba9247e69fee5ed48cbec1b9&amp;ei=102\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Britain&#8217;s financial sector saw a record 3.31 million fraud cases in 2024, up 12% on the year before, according to data from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Fraud-victim.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75721,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75720\/revisions\/75721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}