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“Ofcom has announced this week they are looking to strengthen the rules around these scam calls, requiring providers to do more and block these calls.”

Landline and mobile phone providers have been told to implement tougher checks on the calls they put through to their customers, after a boom in scammers using fake numbers.

Three quarters of people in the UK, or almost 41 million, are estimated to have received ‘suspicious’ calls or texts in the last three months, the watchdog added.

Some 700,000 Brits answered fraud calls this summer, as criminals have become more sophisticated by imitating UK phone numbers of legitimate organisations, like banks and Government departments.