Huge Rise in Credit Card Crime

The number of victims of the “hidden crime” of card fraud has leapt by 40 per cent in a year to more than 2.4 million people.

Credit and debit card fraud, which cost the banks £440 million last year, is rising fast at a time when figures for other types of crime indicate that the feared recession crimewave has failed to materialise.

Read the full story from the Times.