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Evening Standard
Vicky Shaw

£66m returned to APP scam victims in first six months of rules going live

In the first six months of mandatory APP scam reimbursement rules, 87% of money lost to APP scams in scope of the policy was returned to victims, according to figures from the Payment Systems Regulator (Dominic Lipinski/PA) - (PA Archive)

Some £66 million was returned to victims of authorised push payment (APP) scams in the first six months of a new reimbursement scheme going live, according to a regulator’s figures.

Rules requiring banks to reimburse people who have been tricked into transferring money to a fraudster were launched in October last year.

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