TIM DREW: Elderly residents in Sussex are most targeted

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With their high proportion of elderly residents, East and West Sussex are two of the counties most targeted by fraudsters '“ and those targeted are not always the very old.

In fact, Sussex as a whole has more victims in the 60-69 age bracket than the national average, with the usual loss amounting to £10,000 per victim.

Over a six month period ending in March, 359 older people in Sussex were victims of telephone-enabled computer service fraud where criminals called them saying that they needed to fix a problem with their laptop or PC. It was people aged 69 who were most affected.