Fraud Alert

Introduction

These pages have been set up by the Sterling Prevention Unit, part of the Economic and Specialist Crime OCU (SCD6) as a resource to assist in combating specific types of fraud and other economic crime, and to prevent you becoming a victim of crime.

Sterling is the Metropolitan Police initiative to tackle Economic Crime throughout London. By working together with individuals and organisations, from all levels of the private and public sectors, Sterling aims to make London safer from all types of Economic Crime. Innovative new techniques are being developed to prevent, disrupt, and prosecute fraud related offences.

Please see our Sterling report below for a full introduction and to view our achievemnets since 2005:

• Sterling - Economic crime strategy for London - [ Adobe PDF - 3.9MB]

Please send all banking related phishing emails to reports@banksafeonline.org.uk. Queries related to Paypal or Ebay should be sent to spoof@paypal.co.uk and spoof@ebay.co.uk respectively.

 

News

Listed below are our most recent news stories:

• Students advised not to pay for accommodation up front - 07.09.09
• Personal Fraud Prevention Advice Document - 02.09.09
• CV writing scams - 27.08.09
• Classified advert leads to violent assault - 26.08.09
• Buying On-line - Advice when buying from a private seller - 26.08.09
• Virtual Vehicle Fraud features in the News - 09.06.09
• Oft warns of £3 million car-selling scam - 29.05.09
• Update on holiday fraudsters - 30.03.09
• False Job Offer Scams - 27.01.09

On this site the following are available:

• Identity Fraud
• Printing machine advance fee frauds
• Vehicle buying and selling advice
• Internet auction fraud
• Money Transfer – High Volume Fraud
• 419 Fraud
• Company Fraud
• Employee Fraud
• Internet Fraud
• ATM (Automated Teller Machine) attacks
• Lotto Fraud
• Money Laundering and asset seizure
• High Yield Investment Fraud
• Criminal cashback

Helpful information

If as a result of one of these frauds or any other type of fraud, you have become a victim of crime, you will need to attend your local police station to report the allegation. If you are a resident in Greater London area this link will provide details of your local police station.

If you are resident outside the London area the following link will provide you with details of your local force website from which you can obtain details of your local police station.

Currently there is no facility in the UK to report fraud offences on line.