Two-Thirds Of Fraud Victims Vulnerable

24th November 2024
Posted in Fraud Awareness, Legal Help, Sunday Mirror

At Richardson Hartley Law we regularly carry out research to help uncover trends in UK fraud.

We examined our own data and found that two-thirds of our fraud victims had suffered with some sort of vulnerabilty.

This can vary from being recently widowed or divorced to elderly or having English as a second language..

Many of those interviewed said that being duped had left them with severe depression and some had said that they contemplated suicide as a result of falling victim to fraud. The three most common emotions described by the victims were ‘shame’, ‘anger’, and ‘upset’.

The Sunday Mirror ran the story as an exclusive.

Read the story in full: Scammers target most vulnerable with two thirds of victims struggling with mental health – The Mirror