Investment fraud a serious money maker for criminals

Europols’s spotlight report ‘Online fraud schemes: a web of deceit’, looks into online fraud schemes—a major crime threat in the EU and beyond—and one of the report’s primary themes is investment fraud.

But first I want to share some more remarkable conclusions from the report:

• Charity scams that prey on concern about international conflicts and natural disasters are becoming more prevalent.


• Fraudsters are evolving their techniques and increasingly re-target fraud victims.


• The social engineering techniques used by fraudsters …

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