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IntroductionFraud - the criminal activity of getting money by deceiving people - is a big issue. Clever and complicated scams can trick us into handing over lots of cash. Sam and Rob discuss the methods criminals use, hear from some experts and teach some honest fraud-related vocabulary.
This week's questionAccording to UK Finance – an organisation that represents the British banking industry – how much money did criminals steal through fraud and scams last year? Was it…
a) £1.2m
b) £120m
c) £1.2bn
The answer is given at the end of the programme.
Vocabularyfraud
the criminal activity of getting money by deceiving people
scam
illegal or dishonest way of making money by tricking someone
fall for (something)
believe (something), that is a trick or a lie, to be true
sleight of hand
use of clever skill to gain something dishonestly
rifle
search something in order to steal from it
phishing
tricking someone by email or online to get their personal data by pretending to be from your bank
sophisticated
clever and often complicated
Transcript Note: This is not a word for word transcript
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发表于 2019-7-30 22:36:31
