Door-to-door fraudsters have adapted their tactics to use the pandemic to their advantage, Which? has found. Many of us were appalled in January by the case of a 92-year old woman in London who had been stabbed in the arm and conned out of £160 by an alleged vaccine scammer. But Which? research suggests this wasn’t an isolated incident. While the number of reports of doorstep fraud have remained consistent over the past two years, at around 300-500 reports each month, with £18.7m lost over 2020, Action Fraud believes many of these offences are underreported. This may be because victims don’t believe they will get their money back or fear reprisal, and also because the elderly are the most targeted.