A warning has been issued over a new scam where fraudsters have managed to take control of people's mobile phones remotely. New data from Action Fraud, the national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, reveals that 20,144 people have been tricked this way.
The cyber crooks have been fooling their victims into unwittingly granting them remote access to their smart phone devices. Action Fraud believes that more than £50 million was stolen last year - using both phones and computers.
The reports of so-called remote access tool scams involve a total of £57,790,384. That equates to an average loss of £2,868 per victim from this scam.
