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A parliamentary committee set up to look at trends in cybercrime is considering the establishment of a website allowing people to report electronic crime. Lord Broers, chairman of the science and technology select committee, said the idea is one of several his committee is considering in its study on e-crime, which is due to …

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  1. Ian Ferguson

    Exactly right

    I hope this comes to something. When I was scammed out of £300 through eBay and Paypal, the police didn't understand the problem and didn't want to know; Paypal were worse than useless so no help there.

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  2. Andy Bright

    And yet

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/26/uk_police_suspend_crime_reporting_website/

    So if we can't be bothered to report any crime at all, what makes them think we'll report internet fraud online?

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  3. John

    Protect Bank's reputation

    The banks want to protect their reputation. For this reason the government has changed the rule. If a CreditCard-victim reports an incident to the police, then the report is also available to the public (and to the journalists).

    If the Credit-Card-victim reports the incident to the bank, the bank is more than happy to make its customer happy. The important thing is to protect bank's reputation.

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