National Crime Agency Using ‘Nerds’ to Tackle Tidal Wave of Cyber Fraud, MPs Told

Published on January 17, 2024

The National Crime Agency (NCA) is using “nerds” to tackle a massive rise in online fraud which has taken place over the past decade, MPs have been told. The House of Commons home affairs committee heard from a number of experts on fraud on Wednesday and was told that the number of fraud offences had risen from 230,000 in 2013 to three million in 2023 and it would take an extra 30,000 police officers to tackle it. Conservative MP Tim Loughton said: “This is not a crime which is combated by bobbies on the beat wandering down streets. It’s very, very different. So it requires a completely different approach … recruiting loads of computer nerds fresh out of university who have a chance at getting one up on the computer nerds who are the fraudsters on the other side.”...

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