Miss England beauty pageant targeted by Turkish cyber-criminals
The famous beauty pageant was targeted on Tuesday night with a sophisticated online scam. Miss England organiser Angie Beasley was stung after receiving what appeared to be a legitimate message from Instagram, asking her to confirm her phone number. She then clicked on a code which then allowed the hackers to take over the 20,000 followers-strong account, locking her out for good. This morning the cyber-crooks contacted her on WhatsApp demanding 'If you want to save your account we can make a deal with you'. Ms Beasley immediately contacted Action Fraud, UK's national reporting centre fo...