Police are warning holiday makers to stay vigilant when booking up for fun in the sun, after new figures reveal that £15million has been lost to scammers over the course of the last year.
Holiday fraud sees con-artists using a range tactics to encourage people to part with their hard-earned cash – from cloning comparison and airline websites to bogus agents advertising so-called getaways on social media.
The data, which was released by Action Fraud today (Monday) to coincide with the launch of their awareness campaign shows these summer scams have risen by 41 per cent across the country in the last year alone.
