Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.A PARTNERSHIP between Police Scotland and the finance industry has saved people in the country from losing out on more than £6 million.During the past financial year (April 2019 to March 2020), £6.85 million of fraudulent transactions were prevented by the Banking Protocol – a link-up involving the police, the finance industry and Trading Standards.To date in this financial year (April to August), the protocol has also stopped almost 200 members of the public losing more than £1 million.Due to the coronavirus lockdown, there has been a decrease of around 50 per cent in the number of incidents reported in this financial year compared to same.
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