Others are playing on people’s fears during the health crisis by offering fake or non-existent items for sale, including personal protective equipment, medicines and hand sanitiser, she said. People selling fake or non-existent items related to the pandemic a nurse in a hospital and say, “I need money to help me to get to work,” and abuse people that way.’
National Crime Agency director general Lynne Owens said: ‘We’ve seen reports of a dating fraud where people are pretending to be. Individuals are reportedly taking advantage of the pandemic by posing as hospital nurses on dating sites and asking for money to help them get to work.