Fake online shops scam: Half a million people have shared their credit card security codes

Shopping scam is one of the largest scams of its kind, with 76,000 fake websites created. Photograph: Alamy/PA

More than 800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China.…

This data comes from the ChinaPulse.com media intelligence and smart news insights monitoring platform.