A-Z of fraud

To help understand which fraud you've been affected by, we've categorised them into an alphabetical list. 

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• 419 emails and letters
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A


• Abuse of position of trust
• Accommodation addresses
• Accommodation fraud
• Account takeover
• Advance fee fraud
• Anti-competitive behaviour
• Application fraud
• Asset misappropriation fraud
• Auction fraud
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B


• Bank account fraud
• Bank card and cheque fraud
• Bankruptcy-related fraud
• Benefit fraud
• Betting fraud
• Bogus tradesmen fraud
• Boiler room fraud
• Bond fraud
• Botnet-related fraud
• Business directory fraud
• Business opportunity fraud
• Business trading frauds
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C


• Call centre fraud
• Career opportunity scams
• Cash point fraud
• Charitable publication scams
• Charity donation fraud
• Cheque fraud
• Cheque overpayment fraud
• Child Benefit fraud
• Clairvoyant scams
• Click fraud
• Companies – fraudulent
• Computer hacking
• Computer Software Service frauds
• Corporate fraud
• Corporate services fraud
• Council tax fraud
• Counterfeit cheque fraud
• Counterfeit goods fraud
• Credit card fraud
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D


• Dating fraud
• Debit card fraud
• Domain name scams
• Door-to-door sales fraud
• Doorstep electricity meter credit scams
• Doorstep fraud
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E


• Electricity scam
• Employee fraud
• Employment fraud
• Exploiting assets and information
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F


• Facility takeover
• False accounting fraud
• Fixed line fraud
• Fraud enabling activities
• Fraud recovery fraud
• Fronting
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G


• Gambling fraud
• Goods sold as investment
• Government agency scams
• Guardian’s Allowance fraud
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H


• Health in Pregnancy Grant fraud
• Health scams
• Hedge fund fraud
• Holiday club fraud
• Holiday fraud
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I


• Identity fraud and identity theft
• Impersonation of officials
• Individual fraud
• Inheritance fraud
• Insider information
• Insolvency-related fraud
• Institutional investment fraud
• Insurance broker scams
• Insurance fraud
• Intellectual property fraud
• Internal fraud
• Internet auction fraud
• Internet dialler scam
• Invoice scams
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L


• Land banking scams
• Life assurance takeover
• Loan repayment fraud
• Loan scams
• Lottery scams
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M


• Mail boxes and multiple post redirections
• Malware
• Mandate Fraud
• Market manipulation
• Marketing materials
• Mass marketing fraud
• Medical scams
• Miracle health scams
• Mobile phone fraud
• Money movement
• Money muling
• Mortgage fraud
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N


• Non-domestic rate fraud
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O


• Office supply scams
• Olympics fraud
• Online fraud
• Online shopping fraud
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P


• Patient charge evasion
• Payment fraud
• Pension liberation scams
• Personnel management fraud
• Phishing
• Phoenix company fraud
• PIN entry devices
• Plastic card fraud
• Ponzi schemes
• Premium rate phone line scams
• Prime bank guarantee fraud
• Prize draw scams
• Procurement fraud
• Property fraud
• Property investor scams
• Proxy servers
• Psychic scams
• Public funding and grants
• Public sector service provision
• Pyramid scheme fraud
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R


• Racing tipster scams
• Receipt fraud
• Recruitment scams
• Rental fraud
• Romance scams
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S


• Share sale fraud
• Shopping fraud
• Short and long firm fraud
• Slimming cures scams
• Smishing
• Spam emails
• Store card fraud
• Sweepstake scams
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T


• Tabnapping
• Tax fraud
• Telecommunications frauds
• Ticket scams
• Timeshare fraud
• Travel and subsistence fraud
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V


• Vehicle matching scams
• Vishing
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W


• Website domain name scams
• West African letter fraud
• Work from home scams