{"id":186221,"date":"2023-08-26T01:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T01:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=186221"},"modified":"2023-08-26T01:49:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T01:49:36","slug":"banks-call-on-firms-of-social-media-sites-to-reimburse-scam-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/banks-call-on-firms-of-social-media-sites-to-reimburse-scam-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks call on firms of social media sites to reimburse scam victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bank bosses call on the firms behind social media sites including Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to help compensate victims of scams<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Barclays\u00a0backs the Money Mail &#8216;Stop the Social Media Scammers&#8217; campaign<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tech companies behind Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram should help compensate victims of scams, say bank bosses.<\/p>\n<p>Fraudsters are driving an online crimewave with one Briton falling victim to a shopping scam every seven minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Now Barclays is backing the Money Mail &#8216;Stop the Social Media Scammers&#8217; campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It is calling for a tough new regime that would include forcing tech giants to pay towards the cost of reimbursing victims.<\/p>\n<p>Barclays said that 88 per cent of shopping scams, which cause victims to lose \u00a31,000 on average, start on social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/21\/00\/74538645-12427059-image-a-27_1692572849284.jpg\" height=\"465\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tech companies behind Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram should help compensate victims of scams, say bank bosses<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/21\/00\/74538819-12427059-image-a-30_1692573149555.jpg\" height=\"440\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Now Barclays is backing the Money Mail &#8216;Stop the Social Media Scammers&#8217; campaign\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bank says there should be a victim reimbursement fund to be financed by all firms whose systems and platforms are used to perpetrate scams, including tech companies and banks.<\/p>\n<p>It is also called for the creation of a cross-Government group within the Home Office to deal with the issue in order to coordinate regulators, policy makers, industry groups, and companies across different sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Barclays said the prevention of scams should also be made mandatory, particularly for tech companies, in a shift from current voluntary measures.<\/p>\n<p>The government is under pressure to make the tech giants to publish their scams data to inform consumers of the risks involved in using their platforms.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE: Instagram is ignoring calls to shut down dangerous profiles run by scammers and has failed to prevent &#8216;blatant criminal activity&#8217;, fraud bosses at TSB say\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Matt Hammerstein, chief executive officer of Barclays UK, said: &#8216;With so much of everyone&#8217;s lives now being online, from staying connected with friends and family, to shopping, it&#8217;s important that people feel safe on the platforms they use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Our data shows that tech platforms, particularly social media, are now the source of almost all scams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;However, there is no current legislative or regulatory framework obliging the tech sector to support the prevention of these crimes, as there rightly is for banks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We can only drive back this epidemic, and protect UK competitiveness, by stopping scams at their source, preventing the flow of funds to organised crime.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Money Mail campaign is calling for fines to be imposed on social media platforms if they fail to clear out the fraudsters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/21\/00\/74538599-12427059-image-a-29_1692572924639.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The government is under pressure to make the tech giants to publish their scams data to inform consumers of the risks involved in using their platforms<\/p>\n<p>It argues there should be tougher identity verification measures to stop criminals setting up bogus social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>While it is calling for sales sites such as Facebook Marketplace to offer users secure payment systems to buy and sell.<\/p>\n<p>Meta said: &#8216;We don&#8217;t want anyone to fall victim to these criminals, which is why we have systems to block scams and financial services advertisers now have to be FCA authorised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Scammers are using increasingly sophisticated methods to defraud people, which is why we run campaigns on how to spot fraud. 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