Tackling digital detriment
How can trading standards manage to keep pace with rapid technological change?
Posted 23 July 2021 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Analysis|Crime|National
ANALYSIS: Pandemic-era e-commerce scams have exposed changing consumer behaviour, digital vulnerability and enforcement challenges, as Citizens Advice, CTSI and trading standards teams confront rapidly evolving online fraud.
<p class="p1">In the world of e-commerce crime and online scams, it seems that nothing is off limits. While millions of people have died and millions more have had their lives ruined, fraudsters have viewed the global pandemic as an opportunity to deceive and to profit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p2"&g...
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