The Yorkshire & Humber Fraud Forum (YHFF) is a membership organisation designed to promote fraud awareness and successful fraud prevention strategies in both public and private sectors across Yorkshire and the Humber.
Across the UK it is estimated that fraud costs the UK over £30 billion a year...
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CIFAS - the UK's Fraud Prevention Service, today releases Staff Fraudscape: a 40-page report analysing the insider frauds, and the reasons behind the 14.5% increase in such frauds, recorded by members of the CIFAS Staff Fraud Database during 2011.
Overall, confirmed cases of fraud committed by staff within the employer organisations rose by 14.5% in 2011 when compared with the previous year.
The frauds identified by the cross sector Members of CIFAS – the UK's Fraud Prevention Service during the first quarter of 2012, confirm that the age of data-enabled fraud has truly arrived.
The increase in levels of fraud is alarming news, revealing the scale of the fraud problem currently blighting the UK economy. While improved detection techniques used by organisations will undoubtedly help to uncover more fraud, the levels and types of fraud being attempted and committed are a sobering reality check to businesses, public sector and individuals.
Phillippa Williamson, chief executive of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), has stepped down just days before a new head takes up the reins as the government probes how the agency operates.
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