It’s a sad but well-documented fact that the most unscrupulous individuals will happily try to exploit any crisis for their own gain.
So it was in spring 2020, almost as soon as the first COVID-19 lockdown kicked into gear, that there was a wave of reports of pandemic-related email and phone scams, trying on everything from fraudulent PPE sales to ‘phishing’ for personal information through bogus medical registrations.
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