Social media and email make talking to people so cheap and easy that it seems like they've become everyone's favourite way to communicate, including scammers.
But just as the hype around WhatsApp hasn't made phone calls obsolete, Facebook scams haven't yet put paid to more traditional forms of unsavoury activity such as rogue phone calls.
A new report by the UK's National Trading Standards (NTS) team, timed to coincide with the 2015 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM), has identified thousands of victims in the year to April.
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