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How much did you give him?
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So, although...
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It was over 80,000, through that one bank account, yeah.
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80,000 pounds?
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Yeah, just over 80,000.
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If you thought fraud wasn't a priority for the police,
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this might be a surprise.
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So this operation is targeting the industry which enables fraudsters to operate.
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The criminals who provide other criminals with bank details,
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but also technical support and even training in how to steal money from unsuspecting victims.
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In the very early hours,
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two dozen officers are heading for a flat in South London.
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An arrest.
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He's suspected of selling personal financial information to scammers.
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And police abroad, especially Nigeria, are also making arrests.
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Bank and credit card fraud is up 15%,
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a major headache for police forces under pressure.
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The scale of fraud and the victimisation across the public and our communities is huge.
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People might not know, but there's a whole ecosystem out there that fraudsters are actively involved in,
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where they will buy and sell tradecraft.
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They will exchange information with each other,
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compromise data, credit card numbers, and tradecraft and scripts.
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And that really is where a lot of fraudsters will meet and learn their trade.
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So by focusing on those groups,
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it enables us to disrupt that whole ecosystem.
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The police can't do it all.
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Banks have set up their own team to track fraudsters.
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What we do is fight on their behalf in the shadows.
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BBC News was given exclusive access to the crack team of experts scouring the internet for scammers.
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We are relentlessly focused on the threats.
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We're always watching, we're always hunting for them on the dark web.
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I understand when a victim loses money that it's very distressing and the banks will respond to that.
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They respond to that very quickly and they've dedicated teams for doing so.
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The strategy is to hit the criminals before,
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during and after the fraud.
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Here they say it takes a chain of events for criminals to scam you out of your money.
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They prepare by researching what they're going to do,
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often learning from other criminals.
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They develop online resources, building or even buying fake bank websites.
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They use social engineering, dodgy text messages often,
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to trick you into paying up.
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Then your account has been compromised.
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But the crucial stage for the criminals is called the cash-out.
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These experts are from military intelligence,
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the police, cyber security companies.
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Investigators like Kate, not her real name,
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scoured data from the banks and scraped from chat rooms where anonymous scammers discuss their methods.
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When you go through the data,
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what are you looking for?
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That golden nugget, that piece of information that will help perhaps identify a network,
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a criminal service service or even a criminal operation.
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I find it hugely frustrating that these criminals are so callous and brazen about,
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there's no consideration for the victim.
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Kirsty has a difficult story to tell about herself,
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about how she met a man called Patrick on a dating site she thought from a fake profile was British.
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And he was a handsome man,
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he looked smart and I was drawn to him And I felt a connection with him.
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His words were hello and they're the five letters that have changed my life.
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And he wasn't pushy at the start?
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No, absolutely not, no. He built a rapport with me.
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There was no rush, so not like what you hear now,
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the acting haste, everything's quickly moved, love bombing.
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It wasn't like that at the beginning for me built a rapport,
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he explained about things in his childhood,
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we spoke about places where he'd lived,
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he spoke about places where I'd lived,
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so there was no real sense that this was going the wrong way for me.
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There was no red flags.
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You know, I was excited to get a message from him,
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I was excited to speak to him on the phone,
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and then he turned around and he said he'd been in an accident.
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Now, I'm the kind of person that would help anyone,
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even if I was on death's door myself.
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I pride myself on that.
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And when he said that,
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I just wanted to help him.
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And he asked me then,
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can you transfer some money,
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because I've not done the business deal and I need to finish that,
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or I'm going to be in hospital and I'm going to be out of pocket.
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How much did you give him?
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So, although it was over 80,000 through that one bank account, yeah.
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80,000 pounds?
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Yeah, just over 80,000.
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You completely trusted him, Kirsty, didn't you?
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Yeah, I did, yeah.
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Because people will hear this story and they'll think...
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Why did she do that?
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And that's why we need to make people fully aware of what this does
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and the coercion and the manipulation that you go under.
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The man whose images were stolen by the scammer to create Patrick is actually Jay,
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a former model with a family of his own.
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In a way, he's a victim too.
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Yeah, I mean, I look back,
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I'm in hospital, look at that.
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I've been contacted by that image before.
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That's not, that's just, I'm looking now and it's me taking a picture of waking up at 10 in the morning,
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having a lazy day.
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It's me in bed saying I'm ready to go out but I wanted to go back to bed.
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It was me eating a cake.
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These are all images of me trying to show my friends,
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just being a normal guy.
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You feel like someone's invaded your privacy and then you kind of worry about your reputation.
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I've worked quite hard with my modelling career,
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with how we're building our fitness business,
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how my mum and dad have brought me up with the disciplines and manners.
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You just think, oh gosh,
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what are people going This is a whole of society problem and we are reacting with a whole of society solution.
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We're providing law enforcement a force multiplier to enable their operations to hit harder,
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faster with less risk.
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The strategy has resulted in more than 500 arrests so far.
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But not as far as anyone knows Patrick.
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Kirstie's fraudster kept up the act right to the end.
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And then he's rung me up after I've been to the police station
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and he's saying how much he loved me and that he was sorry and thinking,
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how could you possibly be sorry if you're doing that?
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And he just kept saying it and then all of a sudden he just turned round and said,
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Kirsty, I've been in an accident.
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He hadn't stopped?
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No. And I threw the phone against that wall and they're still marking it now to this day,
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which I look at regularly, to remind myself.
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She's now rebuilding her florist business and her life,
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talking openly about what happened.
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She hopes Patrick will be caught.
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We, we are the first public presentation to the group.

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Questo video fornisce uno spaccato sorprendente sulle operazioni contro i truffatori online. Praticare la lingua parlando di tematiche attuali e significative, come la criminologia e la sicurezza, non solo arricchisce il tuo vocabolario, ma ti permette anche di acquisire una maggiore familiarità con svariati accenti e stili di comunicazione. Utilizzando tecniche di shadowing site, puoi migliorare la tua pronuncia e fluency, ripetendo le frasi e le espressioni utilizzate dagli esperti nel video. Questo metodo ti aiuterà a sentirti più sicuro nell'eloquio e a memorizzare strutture linguistiche utili per situazioni comuni.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

Nel video, ci sono diverse strutture grammaticali e espressioni chiave che vale la pena analizzare:

  • “It's very distressing”: Questa frase è un ottimo esempio di come si possono esprimere emozioni in inglese. L'uso di aggettivi come “distressing” è fondamentale per comunicare empatia.
  • “We are relentlessly focused”: L'uso dell'avverbio “relentlessly” enfatizza l'intensità dell'azione. È un modo efficace per comunicare dedizione e impegno.
  • “It takes a chain of events”: Questa espressione idiomatica può essere utile in contesti di causa ed effetto. Comprendere tali espressioni fa parte della fluency e del pensiero critico in inglese.
  • “Before, during and after the fraud”: Questa ripetizione cronologica aiuta a chiarire procedure e strategie. È utile anche per chi deve redigere relazioni o relazionarsi in situazioni professionali.

Trappole di pronuncia comuni

Durante il video, alcuni termini e accenti potrebbero presentare delle difficoltà per chi sta imparando l'inglese. Ecco alcuni suggerimenti:

  • “Ecosystem”: Attenzione alla pronuncia della “eco” e della “system”; esercitati con il shadow speak per perfezionarla.
  • “Criminals”: Spesso si tende a enfatizzare troppo la prima sillaba; in realtà la corretta articolazione dovrebbe dare equa importanza a tutte le parti della parola.
  • “Scammers”: Fai attenzione all'accento sulla ‘a’, assicurati di pronunciare la 'a' in modo chiaro.

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