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Scots twice as likely to fall for health scams

Scots are more than twice as likely as people elsewhere in the UK to fall for scams promising dramatic weight loss or cures for a medical condition.

Some 15% of consumers north of the border who responded to a mass-­marketed con took up the offer of slimming pills or health cures, compared with only 6% in the rest of the country.