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Tories accuse Brown over Internet crime
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Yorkshire Post
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May 26, 2008
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THE Conservatives have accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown of
being in denial about the growing problem of Internet crime.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis says the problem will only
escalate as technology advances and accused the Government of
having: "its head stuck in the sand."
New findings have suggested credit card and debit card fraud on
the Internet is much greater than previous estimates.
Bank industry figures published earlier this year show "card not
present" losses for internet, phone and mail order crime were Pounds
290.5m last year.
But a BBC News investigation found that Pounds 500m of fraud took
place when failed attempts were taken into account.
Mr Davis, MP for Haltemprice ...