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Fraudsters have, unfortunately, been known to take advantage of coronavirus over the last year or so and on July 22, the ONS highlighted just how problematic this has become.
The ONS detailed: "Estimates from the Telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales (TCSEW) showed that there were 4.6 million fraud offences in the year ending March 2021, a 24 percent increase compared with the year ending March 2019.
"This included increases in consumer and retail fraud, advance fee fraud and other fraud and may represent fraudsters taking advantage of behaviour changes possibly related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, such as increased online shopping and increased savings.
"For example, advance fee fraud offences included scams where victims transferred funds to fraudsters for postal deliveries; other fraud included investment opportunity scams.