YOU HAVE YOUR SAY

EVERY week, Money Mail receives hundreds of your letters and emails. Here are some of the best from our campaign calling for banks to use £130 million of frozen funds in bank accounts that belong to criminals to compensate fraud victims. THIS Money is Mail. a fantastic My uncle campaign, lost £50,000 people could in a get phone some scam. of their If money back it would K. be L., good. London FRAUD compensated victims by should the banks. always Yes, be people of the blame, need to but take banks some are share the ones opening accounts for fraudsters and letting victims transfer money to dodgy accounts. S. B., via email A LOT of these scams could be prevented if the banks acted faster. If they spent more money on their fraud controls I doubt there would be anywhere near as much fraud as there is today. P. S., Margate, Kent WHILE I am glad to see steps are being taken to compensate fraud victims, we need to make sure people are educated so they are not tricked in the first place. J. N., Cambridge I THINK this is a great idea, but I do wonder whether or not it could be open to abuse. We could see a lot of people ‘losing’ money to friends so they can claim some cash from this fund. S. B., Leicester PEOPLE should take responsibility for their own mistakes. I read about people giving their PIN numbers over the phone and I always think: ‘Would you have given the same person your front door keys?’ T. Y., Dartford, Kent IT’S good to see Money Mail campaigning to hand this money to victims. I hope the Government sees sense and lets it happen. K. L., Liverpool I HAVE had enough of reading comments from people who look down on fraud victims as if they should have known better. Not all of these scams are as obvious as the classic ‘Nigerian Prince’ ruse; some of them are incredibly believable and would catch out a lot of people. S. G., London