Research, Survey and Statistics

The latest Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) shows a a 12 per cent increase in total crime, driven by a 43pc increase in fraud and computer misuse for the year ending June 2021 compared with the pre-COVID year ending June 2019

https://www.professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/case-studies/ons-fraud-statistics/#.YY760McIeNA.twitter

The amount of money reported lost to cryptocurrency fraud in 2021 so far is already nearly a third (30%) higher than for the whole of 2020, according to police figures.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/cryptocurrency-fraud-losses-30-2021-104548281.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

The cost to people’s well-being from falling victim to a scam can be calculated at £9.3bn a year, consumer group Which? has found.

https://www.yourmoney.com/household-bills/cost-to-scam-victims-well-being-calculated-at-9bn-a-year/

Fraudsters conned more than £4.7 million out of people in Shropshire and the wider West Mercia area in just three months.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2021/10/21/fraudsters-con-victims-out-of-94-million-in-the-region/

Financial fraud rose by 30 per cent in the first half of 2021 resulting in losses of over £750m, according to the latest fraud report by banking trade body UK Finance, published this morning.

https://www.cityam.com/rising-uk-fraud-levels-branded-a-national-threat-by-banks/

Financial crime, fraud and hacking soared during the pandemic as criminals took advantage of behavioural changes during three strict lockdowns. In fact, fraud and cybercrime jumped by nearly a third in the last twelve months.

https://www.cityam.com/exclusive-uk-fraud-is-big-business-at-52bn-each-year-says-financial-crime-guru/

Impersonation scam cases more than doubled in the first half of 2021 to 33,115, a finance industry trade association has said.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-finance-government-lloyds-bank-b954982.html

Criminal financial activity is on the rise with loan fraud rates at their highest level in more than three years according to new data.

https://www.cityam.com/bank-loan-fraud-surge/

New figures from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau show a threefold spike in reported financial losses to fraud and cyber crime in the first six months of 2021

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252505825/UK-loses-13bn-to-fraud-and-cyber-crime-so-far-this-year

At the end of July, the Government announced it would scrap Action Fraud, the national gateway for triaging and allocating fraud complaints for police investigation. The decision is long overdue.

https://www.cityam.com/action-fraud-was-fruitless-agency-its-downfall-should-teach-us-the-perils-of-letting-skulduggery-go-unpunished/