UK TO REPLACE NATIONAL FRAUD AND CYBER CRIME REPORTING CENTRE
August 1st, 2021
The UK national fraud and cybercrime reporting centre - Action Fraud - is to be replaced with “an improved national fraud and cybercrime reporting system”, the British government has said in its July 27 Beating Crime Plan (1). However, the City of London Police, which currently hosts Action Fraud, has rejected newspaper claims that the national reporting hotline was being scrapped after an exposé in The Times (2) revealed alleged failings. This included that hotline callers were misled over the likelihood of the crimes they were reporting being investigated ...
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