More than five months ago, in the wake of a harrowing article I had written about a young woman who was robbed of £100,000 in an online Bitcoin fraud, I made an impassioned plea to the Government: do more to ensure social media providers – the likes of Google and Facebook – 'wash their platforms clean of fraudsters'. At the time it appeared the Government was in listening mode with Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledging that online financial fraud was 'becoming an increasing concern of Government and I think of people across the country'. Think? Know, more like. Yet, sadly, Johnson has since failed to act on these words, resulting in a locust-like plague of financial fraudsters currently hovering over the UK intent on emptying our bank accounts of our lifetime savings.