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International Fraud Awareness Week
Nov 09, 2020
SAFE are proud to support International Fraud Awareness Week (IFAW) #fraudweek and the global effort to minimise the impact of fraud by promoting anti-fraud awareness and education.
Fraud costs the UK economy in excess of £100bn a year and in 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has provided new opportunities for criminals to defraud you and your business.
As part of #fraudweek we've put together a toolkit of anti-fraud resources for businesses and individuals.
Organisations
We've created a series of fraud prevention quick guides to help protect your business from common types of fraud.
- COVID-19 Fraud Prevention Advice for Businesses
- CEO Fraud Prevention Quick Guide
- Brexit Fraud Risks - EU Settlement Scheme
- DMARC - Protect your business from email fraud with this free tool from the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA).
Individuals
- Can you outsmart the fraudsters? Put your ability to spot a scam to the test with this quick quiz from Take Five to Stop Fraud.
- This short video from Take Five to Stop Fraud offers advice on protecting your money and personal information from fraud.
- Keep yourself and your family secure online during coronavirus by following the governments Cyber Aware advice.
- Quad9 - is a free security solution from the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) that uses DNS to protect your system against the most common cyber threats, it's also available as an app (search Quad9 in your app store).
Contact us to find out how our team of experienced Accredited Counter Fraud Specialists can help protect your organisation from financial crime.
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In a world of 24/7 social media, and apps for everything from flights to coffee’s, oversharing personal information online affects more of us than we might think. Whether you’ve shared a seemingly innocent photo of your dog, a video of you supporting your favourite team, or you’ve unwittingly given away details of your banking or passport details, you could be revealing information that is invaluable to a fraudster or identity thief. There is increasing evidence that employee’s over-sharing personal information on social media platforms can enable or facilitate fraud against their employer; businesses like yours!
SAFE are proud to be in their seventh year as official supporters of International Fraud Awareness Week (IFAW) 2023. This years event takes place from 12-18 November but you don't need to wait until #fraudweek to be a fraud fighter. We've got lots of great tips and advice here and we'll add more as we approach #fraudweek so make sure you keep checking back here. Be sure to like and follow our LinkedIn and X accounts to stay up-to-date with the very latest fraud prevention advice. Fraud and cyber crime account for over 40% of all estimated crime in England and Wales, affecting more people, more often, than any other crime. The social and economic cost to individuals is estimated to be in excess of £4.7 billion a year. The more aware we all are about fraud, the less likely we are to fall victim to it.
53% of all fraud reports made directly to the NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHS CFA) in 2022-23 related to NHS staff fraud . The NHS CFA estimate that £22.5m of public money is vulnerable to fraud as a result. One particular type of NHS staff fraud that continues to persist is known as ‘working whilst sick’ fraud. This is where an employee is absent from their NHS position due to illness but starts working, or continues to work, for another employer. This type of fraud is not confined to the NHS, businesses across many different sectors will fall victim and suffer financial losses and associated costs as a result.
