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The Daily Mail’s ‘This is Money’ has today published an inaccurate and misleading story about Action Fraud under the headline ‘I fell victim to a Facebook scam and the police advised me to write a letter of complaint to Mark Zuckerberg’.
The article makes a number of inaccurate claims about a report made to Action Fraud following a social media account being hacked, including:
The journalist also did not use all of the information provided to them in response to the questions they asked Action Fraud, including that the person in this case was not told to write a letter.
The article also gives a misleading report on the overhaul to Action Fraud, which was always planned due to a natural end to current supplier contracts.
Action Fraud and the City of London Police feel it is important to make clear and to address the above as follows:
Action Fraud and the City of London Police find it disappointing that despite clear information being provided to the journalist both in writing and through conversations over the phone, the publication has continued to write a factually inaccurate news article.