Endless emails from every delivery service under the sun reminding me that I needed to pay X amount so they can deliver my parcel. And a random African Prince offering to share his fortune with me if only I send him my bank account details…
And, funnily enough, I wasn’t remotely tempted by any of them because, let’s be honest, they scream ‘scam’ from the get-go. They’re basically so bad they’re comedy. Especially as the spelling, punctuation and pictures connected to them were appalling. But unlike this easy-to-suss stuff, there are much more complicated cons that even those of us who are internet-savvy are falling for. And sadly, it’s us middle-aged women who are more likely to be victims than any other group, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Figures show that 9.9% of women aged 45-54 in the year ending March 2022 were victims of fraud, significantly higher than the 5.8% youngest women in the survey aged 18-24 and 6% of the oldest, aged 75-plus.
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