Editorial: It's Not Just the Loss of Money: the Hidden Impact of Bank Scams

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For years, electronic scams have been measured in numbers, in subtracted amounts, number of cases, and percentages of growth. Millions are reported to have been lost, sophisticated criminal networks operating inside and outside banking institutions, failures in control systems.But there is a less visible, and more serious, dimension that rarely enters into public conversation: the damage these scams cause to the mental and physical health of tho…