In one Nottinghamshire case, a woman in her 70s lost £170,000 after being targeted in a crypto romance scam.

With the help of Nottinghamshire Police’s fraud protect team, the pensioner was compensated £110,000 by her bank after the financial ombudsman found she had been the victim of a sophisticated scam, orchestrated from Nigeria and linked to organised crime gangs.

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