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A new team is being created to tackle online fraudsters operating in Britain amid a failure to secure any conviction under existing measures.
The "cyber enforcement team" will be set up as part of a £4.3m investment by the government over three years to tackle internet and e-mail cons.
So far nobody has been convicted by UK authorities tackling these crimes, but many websites have been closed.
An estimated £3.5bn is lost to all types of scams in the UK each year.
Recent research by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) found that 73% of adults had received a scam e-mail in the past year.
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