UK farmers lose single payments to fraudsters

Farmers have become a major target for cyber crooks in the UK targeting their single farm payments.

However, the risk is likely to be lower in Ireland, where less information on who receives the single payment is made publicly available.

In the UK, the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) publishes the full name and municipality or postal code of beneficiaries, and the amount of payment, with only beneficiaries who receive €1,250 or less anonymised.