Half of the UK (48%) believe it is reasonable to lie about their identity or give false information for financial gain, a fraud prevention service reveals.

Those are aspects of first-party fraud, which can range from providing incorrect details about your earnings to secure a mortgage to saying you didn’t receive a product to receive a refund when it has been successfully delivered.

Lying about not receiving goods from a retail company is the most common first-party fraud scenario cited among Cifas’ survey of UK adults. A fifth (19%) of the 2,000 respondents committed what is known as retail non-delivery fraud.

The second-most common first-party fraud activity was lying on a CV to get a job, which almost a fifth (18%) said they did.

Just under a sixth commit single-person discount fraud to bag a cheaper council tax bill by not declaring to local authorities when a partner had moved into their home permanently.

The age group most likely to be involved in any form of first-party scenario is those aged between 25 and 34 years old, which represented 19% of the crimes.

https://www.yourmoney.com/household-bills/first-party-fraud-half-of-uk-think-giving-fake-info-for-financial-gain-is-reasonable/