National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) reports received during 2019/20 and 2020/21
Dear North Wales Police,
Request 1
For each month in the financial years 2019/20 and 2020/21, please provide the number of reports of fraud passed to you from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) to investigate.
Request 2
Please provide the number of individuals charged with offences in connection with the reports identified in Request 1.
Yours faithfully,
D Moore
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D. Moore left an annotation ()
Not strictly an exact response to my request, but a detailed and useful response nonetheless. I am satisfied with the information provided.
J Roberts left an annotation ()
'Nature of fraud and computer misuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2022'
https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/natureof...
'Fraud offences reported to the police are recorded and collected by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) from Action Fraud and two industry bodies, Cifas and UK Finance (See Section 9, Measuring the data). NFIB fraud increased by 17% (to 936,276 offences) in the year ending March 2022 compared with the year ending March 2021; this is also 25% higher compared with the year ending March 2020. Although total fraud offences referred to the NFIB increased, those referred by Action Fraud decreased.'
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Annual Fraud Report - UK Finance (11/5/23):
The definitive overview of payment industry fraud in 2022
'...around £2,300 stolen every minute of last year...We found that 78 per cent of APP fraud starts online and another 18 per cent via telecoms.p2
... losses totalled £726.9 million with almost three million cases recorded. Some key trends saw losses related to lost and stolen cards increase by 30 per cent, contactless payment fraud by 82 per cent, and in-person card transactions by 34 per cent. Remote purchase (CNP) fraud still contributes the majority of unauthorised losses with £395.7 million reported.' p5
https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/system/file...
Fraud Strategy: Stopping Scams and Protecting the Public
May 2023
'6. We will make it much easier to report scams. We will:
▪ Replace Action Fraud with a state-of-the-art system for victims to report fraud and cyber crimes to the police.
8. We will improve the law enforcement response to fraud. We will:
Launch a new National Fraud Squad with over 400 new specialist investigators, and make fraud a priority for the police.
12. In the year ending March 2021, Action Fraud received victim reports totalling a loss of £2.35 billion. Industry reporting suggests average personal losses for authorised frauds (these are frauds where the victim has approved a payment) could be almost £3,000.
20. Fraud levels spiked during the Covid pandemic, growing to over 5 million incidents in the year ending December 2021
48. However, reviews of Action Fraud have repeatedly identified shortcomings...
54. There has not been an independent review of fraud since 1986.
59. Currently, for every 1000 estimated frauds committed there is one successful prosecution.
Case study - Frederick Diji, a prolific romance fraudster... p. 25
134. There is currently no obligation for PSPs to attempt to repatriate money to fraud victims'
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...
Related to para. 59:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/o...
Government’s Fraud Strategy
Statement made on 3 May 2023 - UIN HLWS745
https://questions-statements.parliament....
Preventing the use of SIM farms for fraud
3 May 2023
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultati...
Parliamentary questions asked by Emily Thornberry relating to the government's new fraud strategy:
UIN 183671, tabled on 3 May 2023
https://questions-statements.parliament....
UIN 183672, tabled on 3 May 2023
https://questions-statements.parliament....
UIN 183673, tabled on 3 May 2023
https://questions-statements.parliament....
UIN 183674, tabled on 3 May 2023
https://questions-statements.parliament....
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D. Moore left an annotation ()
Informative DN:
'15. ...
Action Fraud Process
When a person becomes a victim of fraud the report should be made to the national reporting centre of Action Fraud either online or over the telephone. That report is allocated a national crime number referred to as an NFRC number. The report is then passed to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), which is part of the City of London Police as the lead force for fraud. NFIB then assess and triage the report and will file it if there are no reasonable lines of enquiry identified from the information provided.
If there are identified lines of enquiry, NFIB will then disseminate that report to the relevant investigative agency. Typically this is based on the address of the offender (if one has been identified) as fraud offenders can and do offend against multiple victims across the country. However if no offender hasbeen identified then it will be allocated to the investigative agency with jurisdiction over the home address of the victim.
All NFIB disseminations made to WMP are further assessed and triage [sic] by the InvestigationManagement Team within the EconomicCrime Unit (ECU). The Unit is responsible for obtaining the WMP fraud non-crime number (cross referenced with the NFRC) to ensure that the dissemination has a local record. The WMP non-crime number is under the general heading of fraud and is not further classified by the type of fraud involved.NFIB disseminations are classified by the type of fraud relevant to the report. There are 55 types of fraud report.'
IC-49308-W6Z2
https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-tak...