SPECIAL REPORT
Blazepoint
joins the
battle against
ID card crime
recent analysis of activities, the trafficking of young investment scams and boiler room worded, and CIFAS stresses
A
fraud trends during women into sexual slavery and the frauds, victims can lose everything, everyone should be on their guard.
2007 by CIFAS – the importation of drugs. On the other, while financial institutions can also
UK’s Fraud Prevention it funds the purchase of drugs on become fraud victims as they have “Fraudsters are becoming
Service – has revealed our streets, fuelling anti-social to bear the cost. And as the increasingly astute in their methods,”
an escalation in most variants of behaviour and causing road deaths, charges we all pay for financial said Hurst. “With some awareness
fraud. No less than 77,593 cases while prostitution changes the services have to be increased to of how lending decisions are
of identity fraud, which includes character of local communities.” cover fraud losses, it is the made, they are therefore ‘tailoring’
instances of false identity and community as a whole that suffers. their applications in an effort to
identity theft, were reported during beat the system. Following the
this period.
Psychological and material
economic downturn, with lenders
impact
Bank account takeovers
increasingly using stricter lending
The threats posed by fraud are criteria, fraudsters may be realising
diverse and increasingly complex. Hurst emphasised that the impact Figures reveal a sharp increase that large-scale fraud is no longer
“The rise in fraud should be of on those affected should not be in facility takeovers. Also known an option so they are cutting their
concern to us all,” said CIFAS underestimated. “Although innocent as account takeovers, these cloth accordingly. Furthermore, the
chief executive Peter Hurst. “It victims of identity crime are not crimes occur when the fraudster alarming rise in facility takeovers
is widely accepted that the required to foot the bill for a impersonates a victim in order to suggests that, rather than creating
proceeds of fraud fund genuine fraud, the psychological assume control of one or more of new identities and accounts,
both low-level and damage can be severe and their bank or savings accounts. fraudsters are increasingly siphoning
serious crime. On long-lasting,” he said. The number of facility takeover off what is already available from
the one hand, However, he points cases filed by CIFAS members their victims’ accounts.”
fraud is known out that, in the during the first quarter of 2008
to be funding case of has risen by an astonishing 146
terrorist per cent, compared to the same
Police target equipment
period in 2007.
supply
CIFAS feels that the increase Until recently, identity fraudsters
could be due, at least in had easy access to ID card printing
part, to the increasing solutions that would allow for
sophistication of online easy replication of identification
'phishing' – the use of documents. However, the
spoof emails and websites Metropolitan Police has now
designed to deceive recipients launched an initiative to combat
into divulging personal financial identification card crime. Called
data such as credit card numbers, ‘Project Genesius, its main objective
bank account numbers, user is to form a close working relation-
names and passwords – to ship between law enforcement
facilitate the takeover. Phishing and the printing industry focused
emails are becoming increasingly specifically on the supply of
targeted and more cleverly printing equipment that could >>
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