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ASPIRING investors across the region have lost almost £10m to shady cyber-criminals setting up bogus companies. Now, Northumbria Police is backing a national campaign aimed at raising awareness of clone firm investment scams which sees fraudsters snap up people s cash by imitating genuine investment firms. As part of the scheme, con-artists will set up a fake firm by copying all of the relevant details of a legitimate financial company - convincing customers they are the real deal and pocketing their cash. Eager investors across the North-East lost a total of £9.5m between December 2019 and 2020. Northumbria saw a total of £3.9m lost, with those aged 20- 29 most affected. Nationally, reported losses sit at £78 million. ....