OFFICE OF NATIONAL STATISTICS DETAILS GROWING FRAUD CASES IN UK
January 1st, 2016
THE AMOUNT of fraud committed in the UK appears to be rising, according to a detailed report from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) - although the agency accepts the many difficulties in gathering reliable data on the topic. A headline figure generated by the ONS based on data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), UK fraud reporting body Action Fraud (which feeds information into the crime survey), plus industry bodies Cifas and Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) suggest that in the year ending September 2015, 604,601 fraud offences were ...
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