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Comments on: Peer calls for UK cyber-crime portal

Exactly right 

Posted Thursday 26th April 2007 12:52 GMT

I hope this comes to something. When I was scammed out of £300 through eBay and Paypal, the police didn't understand the problem and didn't want to know; Paypal were worse than useless so no help there.

And yet 

Posted Thursday 26th April 2007 16:09 GMT

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/26/uk_police_suspend_crime_reporting_website/

So if we can't be bothered to report any crime at all, what makes them think we'll report internet fraud online?

Protect Bank's reputation 

Posted Thursday 26th April 2007 21:43 GMT

The banks want to protect their reputation. For this reason the government has changed the rule. If a CreditCard-victim reports an incident to the police, then the report is also available to the public (and to the journalists).

If the Credit-Card-victim reports the incident to the bank, the bank is more than happy to make its customer happy. The important thing is to protect bank's reputation.

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