Bank customers are being warned again about "phishing" scam e-mails, after a recent increase in those falling victim to the internet menace.
Internet security firm MessageLabs said it had stopped 215,643 "phishing" e-mails last month compared with just 279 last September.
Phishing is used by fraudsters and organised crime to gain bank details. "You just send out loads of spam emails and hope that 1% of them will hit", says a Spokeswoman for the National High-Tech Crime Unit.
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