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if you are concerned about a message or you think that there are alarm bells going off, that fraud is not going to get you. the fraud that gets you is the fraud that makes sense, and that's what these criminals do so well. if you get one of these messages, the advice is to ignore it, report it — you can forward scam texts to 7726 — and then delete it. dan whitworth, bbc news. dan whitworth from the money box spoke to me earlier — i asked him how much money was lost to the scams. so, in 2022, there was about £20,000 stolen from just 15 people in the uk through this particular type of scam. and then last year, thatjumped by 50 times, so the amount stolen was nearly £1 million. and, again, as you just heard in the report, then, it's worth remembering, those numbers arejust the reported ones — so the actual number is likely to be much higher. because we know, in general, fraud is a hugely underreported crime because people feel embarrassed,