Who scams the scammers? Meet the scambaiters
Police struggle to catch online fraudsters, often operating from overseas, but now a new breed of amateurs are taking matters into their own hands
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Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England, 64 miles northwest of London, 37 miles southeast of Birmingham, 27 miles southeast of Coventry and 22 miles northwest of Oxford. It had a population of 46,853 at the 2011 census.Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area of north Oxfordshire and southern parts of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire which are predominantly rural. Banbury's... Show more main industries are motorsport, car components, electrical goods, plastics, food processing, and printing. Banbury is home to the world's largest coffee-processing facility, built in 1964. The town is famed for Banbury cakes – similar to Eccles cakes but oval in shape.
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