Fraud Alert
Useful Contacts and Links
Note: We are not responsible for any of the websites listed below.
Financial Fraud Action UK is a leading industry web site which includes:
General Information:
- Home Office
- Home Office Crime Reduction Web site
- Data Protection : Information Commissioners Office
Credit Reference Agencies :
- Callcredit Plc 08700 60 14 14
- Equifax Ltd 08700 100 583
- Experian Ltd 08702 416 212
Company Credit Reference Agencies
Fraud:
- National Fraud Authority (NFA)
- The Fraud Advisory Panel
- Serious Fraud Office London
- Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
Insurance Fraud Bureau :
Identity Fraud:
- Identity Fraud Communications Awareness Group (IFCAG)
- National Identity Fraud Prevention Week
- CIFAS
- CIFAS Protective Registration
Company Identity Fraud :
Secure disposal:
Payments and Banking :
- Money Advice Service (Govt Advice)
- Types of Bank Account
- British Bankers Association
- UK payments administration (formerly APACS)
- Bank Safe Online
- Financial Fraud Action UK
- Financial Services Authority
- Payments Council
- Pay your Way
- Sort Code Checker
Scams:
Chronic Scam Victims Support and Advice:
Romance Scams and Honeytraps:
International Scam Complaints:
Vehicle buying and selling:
Shipping and Escrow Payments:
Preference Services
- Avoiding revenue generating phone numbers
- Telephone Preference Service 0800 398893
- Fax preference service 020 7291 3330
- Mailing Preference Service: 0207 2913300
- Royal Mail opt out: 08457 950 950 eMail optout@royalmail.co.uk
Phone Calls:
Intellectual Property and Copyright:
- The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) - Formerly the Patent Office
- Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) - Film Piracy: 020 8568 6646
- BPI (British Phonographic Industry) – Music
Vulnerable and elderly people:
- Action on Elder Abuse
- Age UK the new name for Help the Aged and Age Concern
- Alzheimer’s Society
- Dementia UK
- Friends of the Elderly
- Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) 0845 330 2900
Carers:
Land Registry:
Internet and eMail:
- Get Safe On Line
- Bank Safe OnLine
- Send bank related ‘phishing’ emails to: reports@banksafeonline.org.uk
- Send Paypal or eBay related issues to: spoof@paypal.co.uk or spoof@ebay.co.uk
- Other scam emails should be forwarded to: email@actionfraud.org.uk
Fraud Forums
- VSTAG - Vehicle Safe Trading Advisory Group
- PROFIT - Prevention of fraud in travel
- PFAST - Property forum acting for safe transactions
- Safer Jobs
- PREFIT - Protecting employers from insider threats
- London Fraud Forum
Global links