Development of phone banking fraud cases in the UK 2012-2020

Data on the development of telephone banking fraud cases from 2012 to 2020 in the United Kingdom (UK) shows that the number of telephone banking fraud cases increased overall with some fluctuation during this period, reaching approximately 11.2 thousand cases as of 2019, an increase of nearly 3.25 thousand cases in comparison to the prior year. By 2020, the number of cases decreased to 7.4 thousand. The largest number of cases occurred in 2015, when almost 11.4 thousand telephone banking fraud cases were recorded.