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<p>We are committed to tackling all types of fraud regardless of whether they are
committed on- or offline. The Fraud Act 2006 contains a range of offences that can
be used to prosecute fraudsters who are suspected of phishing. Sections 6 and 7 of
the Act, for example, criminalise the possession, making and supply of articles for
the use in fraud which could include computer software programme used to create phishing
websites.</p><p> </p><p>Although we hold data on the total number of prosecutions
and convictions for offences under the the Fraud Act 2006, we cannot separately identify
what proportion of these cases specifically relate to phishing scams.</p>
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