To help understand which fraud you’ve been affected by, Action Fraud have categorised the types of fraud into an alphabetical list (opens in a new window).
A
- Abuse of position of trust
- Accommodation addresses
- Account takeover
- Advance fee fraud
- Anti-competitive behaviour
- Application fraud
- Asset misappropriation fraud
B
- Bank account fraud
- Bank card and cheque fraud
- Bankruptcy-related fraud
- Benefit fraud
- Betting and gambling fraud
- Bogus tradesmen fraud
- Botnet-related fraud
- Business directory fraud
- Business trading frauds
C
- Call centre fraud
- Career opportunity scams
- Cash machine fraud
- Charity donation fraud
- Cheque fraud
- Clairvoyant scams
- Click fraud
- Companies – fraudulent
- Computer hacking
- Computer Software Service frauds
- Corporate fraud
- Corporate services fraud
- Council tax fraud
- Counterfeit gift certificates
- Counterfeit goods fraud
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- Courier fraud
D
- Debit and credit card fraud
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
- Distribution fraud
- Domain name fraud
- Door-to-door sales fraud
- Doorstep electricity meter credit scams
- Doorstep fraud
E
F
- Facility takeover
- False accounting fraud
- Fixed line fraud
- Fraud enabling activities
- Fraud recovery fraud
- Fronting
G
H
I
- Identity fraud and identity theft
- Impersonation of officials
- Individual fraud
- Inheritance fraud
- Insider information
- Insolvency fraud
- Institutional investment fraud
- Insurance broker scams
- Insurance fraud
- Intellectual property fraud
- Internal fraud
- Internet dialler scam
- Investment fraud
- Invoice scams
L
M
- Mail boxes and multiple post redirections
- Malware and computer viruses
- Mandate Fraud
- Market manipulation
- Marketing materials
- Mass marketing fraud
- Medical scams
- Miracle health scams
- Mobile phone fraud
- Money laundering & movement
- Money muling
- Mortgage fraud
N
O
P
- Payment fraud
- Pension scams
- Personnel management fraud
- Ponzi schemes
- Premium rate phone line scams
- Prime bank guarantee fraud
- Procurement fraud
- Property fraud
- Property investor scams
- Proxy servers
- Psychic scams
- Public funding and grants
- Public sector service provision
- Publication fraud
- Pyramid scheme fraud
R
S
- Shopping fraud
- Short and long firm fraud
- Slimming cures scams
- Spam emails
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