Aviva calls for government intervention to stop search engines promoting financial scams

Surge in Covid scams online during lockdown

Aviva has called on the UK government to act now to stop the rise in the number of financial scams, as its research found two in five (42%) people have been targeted by a Covid scam.

The scale of fraud has accelerated through the coronavirus pandemic, which has resulted in a deluge of opportunities for fraudsters over the last year. Aviva's research found two in five (42%) people have been targeted by a Covid scam. This is a 91% increase over the last year in the number of people who reported receiving emails, texts, phone calls and other communications mentioning coronavirus, and which were suspected to be a financial scam, Aviva said in a statement announcing its findings. The findings come in The Aviva Fraud Report, which found consumer confidence in online ser...