What’s in their (digital) wallets? The scammers loading up phones with stolen cards

Criminals are pouring effort and resources into a new way of exploiting hacked bank accounts

A new and ­sophisticated fraud has emerged in which criminals transfer the bank cards of victims on to the digital wallets of their own phones and then buy goods online and in high street shops.

A group of anti-fraud bodies have come together to warn of the dangers of the scam, which international criminal gangs have been using in the UK as well as North America and other countries.