MET Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe claims online fraud victims have
only themselves to blame.
He also reckons they should not be refunded if they have not followed basic
security measures such as changing their passwords.
Mr Hogan-Howe said people were being “rewarded for bad behaviour”.
He said banks would make their customers more security-conscious by refusing
to reimburse victims who had not protected themselves.
He told The Times: “That’s one thing to consider. If you are continually
rewarded for bad behaviour you will probably continue to do it but if the
obverse is true you might consider changing behaviour.
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“To be fair to the banks, if one says they will do it but the others don’t
then that is a competitive advantage.”
Crime figures are set to double when cybercrime estimates are include in
official data for the first time in July, a Times investigation has revealed.
There were more than three million cyber frauds last year but fewer than 9,000
convictions.
Last night Home Secretary Theresa May warned of a rise in “faceless and
contactless” crime.
She said intelligence agency GCHQ estimates 80 per cent of cybercrime could be
avoided if people regularly updated their anti-virus software and passwords.