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accommodation address
Premises where the fraudster does not live but uses to receive correspondence/mail and for the delivery of fraudulently obtained items such as chequebooks, cards, statements etc. Such addresses may in [..]
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Account/Facility Takeover
The perpetrator of the fraud impersonates a victim and falsely claims a change of address in order to ‘take over’ and control existing financial products. Examples include, among others, account/facil [..]
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ADVANCE FEE FRAUD
A type of confidence trick, designed to extract from its victims an up-front payment for commission, fees, interest payments, or funds for investment in return for offers of, for example, loan finance [..]
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Aiding & Abetting
Aiding, abetting, assisting, or conspiring with, another or others fraudulently to procure credit, hire or other facilities, or other products and services.
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Altered Card
A genuine payment card’s magnetic stripe is removed and replaced with fraudulently obtained card information.
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ANPR – Automatic Number Plate Recognition
ANPR is an established technology used to detect number plates from camera images. The recognised numbers can then be cross-checked against a number of databases, including the Police National Compute [..]
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Application fraud
Applications containing material falsehoods (lies) or false supporting documentation, when the name used has not been identified as false.
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Asset Conversion Fraud
A conversion (disposal or sale) of goods (to which the hirer/buyer does not have title) under a hire purchase, conditional sale, contract hire, leasing or rental agreement.
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ATM Attachments
Numerous attachments can be made to ATMs for fraudulent purposes. A variation on ‘skimming’ involves attaching false fronts with built-in magnetic stripe readers to ATMs and using pinhole cameras to e [..]
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