Fraud Alert

Personal Fraud Prevention Advice

The following advice has been prepared by Operation Sterling for everybody. It includes ways to protect your privacy, as well as what to do if you think that your identity may have been compromised as a result of being a victim of crime or losing anything that contains personal information.

Operation Sterling fraud prevention advice - [ Adobe PDF- 151kb]

Operation Sterling works with a wide range of public and private sector organisations in order to help design out crime and provide crime prevention advice. This document was published at the 'Safeguarding Adults' conference held by the Metropolitan Police at City Hall to coincide with World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.

Speakers included representatives from Action on Elder Abuse, the Alzheimer's Society, the Department of Health, the Office of Fair Trading 'Scambusters' Team and the Office of the Public Guardian, in addition to speakers from the Police who talked on various subjects including Safeguarding Adults Policy, Forced Marriages, Property crime, Distraction Burglary and other doorstep crime.