Quarter of Brits at risk of 'vishing' fraud - research

FFA UK has seen an overall increase of £36m across remote banking and remote purchase (telephone and online), account takeover, and application fraud in the last financial year. Early estimates indicate that at least £7m worth may be attributed to the scam, called ‘vishing'. Vishing involves a fraudster making a phone call to a potential victim, posing as someone from a bank or building society fraud investigation team, the police or another legitimate organisation such as a telephone or internet provider. They attempt to obtain financial information which often includes credit/deb...