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12 December 2024

Almost half (45%) of the retail sector’s decision-makers surveyed about fraud are concerned their own staff could be an ‘insider threat’. Cifas, the UK’s leading not-for-profit fraud prevention service, is providing key advice to help protect workforces from this growing risk during the festive period.

14 October 2024

The online retail industry faces a huge battle as cases of facility (account) takeover filed to the National Fraud Database (NFD) surged by 142% during the first half of 2024, data from UK-leading fraud prevention service, Cifas, has revealed.

27 February 2024

Research from UK-leading fraud prevention service, Cifas, has revealed that nearly three-quarters (73%) of UK corporate businesses believe that cyber-attacks pose the biggest fraud threat to their organisation over the next 12 months.

6 March 2023

The latest research conducted by Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service, has revealed that 1 in 11 people in the UK have lied about their degree qualification on their CV over the last twelve months.

7 November 2022

Research carried out by Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service, has revealed that large UK businesses are most concerned about cyber-attacks, potentially leaving them open to other types of fraud including insider and supplier fraud.

13 December 2021

Ahead of the festive period, Cifas is urging businesses to regularly screen staff following statistics from the Internal Fraud Database revealing dishonest staff actions to be the greatest insider threat to organisations.

18 February 2021

National Fraud Database data reveals facility takeover fraud in the retail sector almost tripled in 2020. Cifas urges retailers to consider how they protect their customer accounts

16 December 2020

The award winners were announced at a virtual awards ceremony hosted by Cifas, the secretariat to the FFCL Board, on Monday 14 December 2020. The FFCL Awards recognise the outstanding work teams and individuals from Local Authorities are doing to protect the public from fraudulent conduct.

14 October 2015

Complex, cross-sector nature of insurance fraud rings and chronology of frauds revealed in new report from Cifas and Hill Dickinson.

25 August 2015

Fraud reports of fake invoices have spiked in the first half of the year, causing fraud prevention experts to warn small businesses to be vigilant.