{"id":2401,"date":"2021-11-23T17:24:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2021-11-23T17:24:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:24:59","slug":"online-and-phone-fraud-and-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/23\/online-and-phone-fraud-and-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Online and phone fraud and scams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This has become a huge problem. I probably receive 5 or 6 spam calls a week from someone trying to sell me life insurance etc.. My advice would be to block their number using your mobile phone as soon as you have ended the conversation. What is particularly difficult from our perspective is that unlike any other type of crime, perpetrators and victims are not in the same place. In fact very often, they are on almost opposite sides of the globe. So that means that this is a crime that can’t be geospatially recorded on our website and I’m not really sure how\/when\/if the different Police forces are choosing to record these crimes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has become a huge problem. I probably receive 5 or 6 spam calls a week from someone trying to sell me life insurance etc.. My advice would be to block their number using your mobile phone as soon as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t