engine - 4:58 pm on Feb 1, 2010 (gmt 0)

Almost 1 in 10 Brits Affected By Scams [news.bbc.co.uk]

Almost 10% of adults - more than 4m people - in Britain say they have responded to a scam in their lives, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said. Almost a half of those who did respond to a scam had lost more than £50, while 5% lost more than £5,000. The OFT said 73% of adults had received a scam e-mail in the past year. Some 6,500 people are also receiving letters from the authorities warning them that their names are on a "sucker list" being circulated by fraudsters.

That's a huge number falling for these scams. Isn't it time this sort of thing was tought to kids at schools, so they can go and educate their parents about how not to be scammed.