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For your personal details, follow—up call from a spoof number and a man who claims to be calling from the fraud department your bank. these scammers trick people like georgia to move their money to another account. thought this could be a scam. they were so convincing. and ifind myself now, every time my phone goes off with a number i don't recognise, i pick it up like i am expecting them. remember, we will never ask you to transfer money to another account for safekeeping. so—called authorised push payment scams are the bane of banks and their customers, now staggeringly common, with arou...

Banks are still not reimbursing scam victims as they should, according to the uk's payments watchdog, the psr. last year alone, around one in 450 people in the uk lost money to so—called authorised push payment scams, where fraudsters trick people to transfer money to them. but we've heard banks are continuing to ignore a commitment to pay back their customers' losses. last month, our reporter jon ironmonger recorded a conversation with a scam caller, which revealed the lengths that some were prepared to go to. he's been speaking to two of their many victims. since my little chat with the no...

If tonight the federal government is talking about a growing threat, people using a w way to separate seniors from their money. here's correspondent david >> the fcc out within the warming today. scammers are using sophisticated and convincing technology to target elderly consumers. >> don't answer the phone if it comes from the spoof number. if you do answer the phone, do not give out personal information, hang up immediatel immediately. >> chairman and chief i oversee the fcc and is urging those with medicare to pay close attention to colors prime for personal information. sometimes the othe...

Can do. >> not at least right now. we have seen over the past few weeks, and talking about how the fcc has stepped in. you guys, you can block the robocalls. there are things happening now. steps are being taken to stop these. >> bill: how about these calls from tunisia that came out of nowhere the past two weeks? >> they have been able to do that because if you have an internet connection, you can get into our phone system. that's how easy it is. it's what they call spoofing. this could be my neighbor calling me. this is my area code. this must be something i need to pick up, and it's not. it...