A riveting journey into the secret world of online scamming and the cyber criminals seeking to defraud you.
Online scams have become a part of everyday life. Texts about a delivery you never ordered. Calls from your bank. Emails demanding your details. Money, information and identity siphoned away by anonymous strangers.
Is it a surprise to learn that those causing chaos to acquire ill-gotten gains are most often teenagers and school children? That every day, scammers are innovating and changing their methods to avoid police detection? That TikTok and Instagram are hotbeds for criminal activity, where money mules are regularly recruited and blueprints for rookie fraudsters are rife?
Through his groundbreaking undercover investigations, Kafui Okpattah opens up the sleazy and scandalous world of the online scam by exposing the methods, motivations and machinations of these cyber criminals.
After reading this book, you'll be ready when the scammers come for you.
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Höhe: 222 mm
Breite: 141 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-0-00-860307-6 (9780008603076)
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Kafui Okpattah is an award-winning investigative journalist and podcast producer. He began his career with BBC News' specialist investigations unit whilst still in his first year of university, and now works for ITV as an investigative reporter covering a wide range of subjects.
He is the recipient of an NCTJ Award for Excellence 2020 (for "Top Scoop"), and was chosen as one of thirty-under-thirty in the British Journalism Awards, 2019. He was also highly commended in the Wincott Awards for Financial Journalism, 2020.
In August 2021, Kaf became the youngest ever writer and presenter of BBC's "Panorama", fronting a 30-minute documentary about social media fraudsters.
Kaf was born in Accra, Ghana in 2000, and has lived in London since 2010.
