The fraudster obtains extensive personal details on an individual allowing a comprehensive fraud encompassing the totality of someone’s identity. The subsequent fraud can include in excess of 20-30 fi [..]

See ‘Misuse of Facility’.

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 [..]

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 [..]

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 [..]

Aiding, abetting, assisting, or conspiring with, another or others fraudulently to procure credit, hire or other facilities, or other products and services.

A genuine payment card’s magnetic stripe is removed and replaced with fraudulently obtained card information.

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 [..]

Applications containing material falsehoods (lies) or false supporting documentation, when the name used has not been identified as false.

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.