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Too many of us have an unhealthy approach to fraud - we simply believe it won’t happen to us. The truth is that thousands of us are targeted by fraudsters every week. Every year, the UK loses £30.5billion to fraud and £3.5billion of that is lost by individuals. [21 September 2010]
UK passports have been redesigned to help fight identity theft and fraud. [25 August 2010]
Crimewatch follow detectives from the Serious Organised Crime Agency to show how they tracked down the Ghanaian fraudster behind an internet and postal romance scam which conned hundreds of people out of thousands of pounds.