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A phone call is the top route for fraudsters to target unwitting consumers (26%), closely followed by Facebook and other social media channels (24%) and email (20%).<\/p>\n

Nearly a third (29%) of the victims surveyed have lost between \u00a3501 \u2013 \u00a310,000 as a result of a scam
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