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Fraud enabling activities

Some activities and crimes enable Fraud to take place.

Here are some examples of Fraud enabling activities:

  • Accommodation addresses
  • Adaptation of PIN entry devices
  • Botnets
  • Call centre fraud
  • Computer hacking
  • Fraudulent companies
  • Identity theft
  • Mailboxes and multiple post redirections
  • Malware
  • Marketing materials
  • Money movement
  • Phishing
  • Proxy servers
  • Smishing
  • Vishing

How to report it

If Fraud has been committed, report it to Action Fraud. For more advice and to raise any concerns, contact the Office of the Public Guardian.

Source - Action Fraud

Date Published: Sep 18, 2023
A to Z Fraud
Type of Fraud
Report a Fraud or Scam

Types of fraud

A-Z of fraud
To help understand which fraud you've been affected by, we've categorised them into an alphabetical list.

What is fraud and cyber crime?
Cybercrimes can be of two types. First, it can be cyber dependent, where the fraudsters use online devices to convince the victim to accept their offers.

Advance fee fraud
If you are trying to get a loan for a house or a car, they ask to meet the provider to get the financing arrangement and pay the finder's fee in advance.

Corporate fraud
Corporate frauds can be complicated, committed either by the firm or an individual. Nevertheless, it mostly involves cheating where the employee or the firm.

Individual fraud
There are many types of individual frauds related to advance fees, investments, insurance brokers, bogus tradespeople, Ponzi schemes, pension liberation.

Online fraud
Hence the number of cases of online fraud is increasing each year, and most such cases include – account takeover, direct frauds, or scams related domain names.

Identity fraud and identity theft
The criminal uses the stolen identity of another person living or deceased to conduct unlawful activities like obtaining goods or services in another's name.
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