Leeds reflects on scams and scamming

Have you or someone you know been a victim of a scam and are they getting easier or harder to spot?

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00:00My daughter was scammed for a large amount of money from a bank

00:03and she is completely being younger than I, being nearly 30.

00:08Totally savvy about what to do, what not to do,

00:11but she did get caught in the net of a scammer.

00:14Those texts bother me, the ones that they send my mum that say,

00:18it's me, mum, and it's not, those ones, I worry about older people.

00:24Do you think your gran would fall for it?

00:25No, she's crazy.

00:27But your mum might?

00:28My mum might fall for it, my grandma's too intense.

00:31I think it's getting tougher and difficult for scammers to get their way,

00:33but then I'll just say, most importantly, stay away from greed.

00:37Greed is what leads to scam at the end of the day.

00:39I think with a decent amount of knowledge, I think they're quite easy to avoid.

00:42AI, phone calls, they talk to you, they ring you and it's not really.

00:47That's creepy.

00:48Yeah.

00:48I don't think I like that.

00:49So that scares me.

00:50The more that we're being pushed into using the internet for every facility,

00:55including banking, particularly our personal assets,

00:57I think that comes at very high risk.

00:59I think that comes at very high risk.