Frauds

Identity fraud is big business. In 2019, Cifas, the UK fraud prevention service, recorded 223,163 cases on its National Fraud Database – a staggering increase of 18% on the previous year and the sharpest rise in the last five years.

A JUNIOR doctor who admitted to jewellers she was “trying to make a wee claim” worth thousands for rings that had not actually been stolen is facing disciplinary action.

A County Fermanagh man is to stand trial on multiple charges of fraud and false accounting, which relate to matters dating back almost 10 years in some instances.

The Crown Prosecution Service said that Joanne Sherriff-Jones, 50, claimed Income Support, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit despite the fact that she was working as a probation officer and also, for a period, for the National Offender Management Service.

A woman who fraudulently claimed almost £95,000 in benefits for three of her relatives has been sentenced.

Laurent Colombant, Continuous Controls and Fraud Manager at SAS, explores the role of continuous monitoring systems in helping organisations resolve procurement fraud

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/procurement-fraud-continuous-monitoring/93119/

Technology is changing the way people do business but, in doing so, it increases the risks around security. Identity fraud is especially on the rise.

https://www.techradar.com/news/how-to-detect-and-prevent-identity-fraud

The coronavirus pandemic has changed just about every aspect of daily life, and credit card fraud has not been spared.

Advertising on connected TV is increasingly being targeted by fraudsters, according to a report commissioned by software provider DoubleVerify.

https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2020/08/19/connected-tv-ads-increasingly-targeted-by-fraudsters/

More than £175,000 has been stolen from Scots in the north-east of the country through romance fraud over the past year.