If you're booking your next holiday, watch out for fake deals, clone websites and bogus cancellations, as criminals are ramping up their efforts to trick holidaymakers out of their money this summer.

Figures from fraud reporting agency Action Fraud show that over £15 million was lost to holiday booking scams between April 2022 and April 2023 – a 41% increase on the previous year – with the summer months seeing the most scams reported.