Extend the Online Safety Bill’s protections against online scams

Online platforms, such as search engines and social media sites, should be given a legal responsibility to protect users from fake and fraudulent content hosted or promoted on their sites that lead to scams.

This petition closed on 14 Nov 2021 with 60 signatures


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The Online Safety Bill is currently set to make online platforms responsible for tackling fraud where a user of the platform shares a message or a post as part of the scam, but not fraud via online adverts or emails. Since the start of the pandemic, I've noticed a significant increase in fraudulent emails and text messages. According to Action Fraud figures, £1.7 billion was lost to scams in the past year, while estimates for the year to June 2020 reveal that 85% of all fraud was cyber-enabled.


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