Santander has issued a warning over the top five regions which have been hit by scammers. The Santander UK Quarterly Scamtracker shows Kent has seen the highest value swiped by scammers in UK between April and June, with a total of £731,155 stolen.

Santander warned customers to be vigilant in Somerset as the area saw the highest increase across the UK. Customers in Kent, followed by the West Midlands, Leicestershire, Essex and Somerset were the hardest hit by scams, when looking at amounts stolen, with a total of more than £3.2m taken over the three month period.

Kent saw the highest monetary value in scams this quarter, pushing it from third place in Q1 to the area with the largest amount stolen the fourth, fifth and sixth month of the year.

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