UK Government to Scrap National Fraud Reporting Centre
UK national fraud and cybercrime reporting centre Action Fraud is being scrapped, the government said in its Beating Crime Plan. This comes after an undercover investigation by The Times in 2019 revealed that the centre’s telephone handlers were being trained to mislead victims into thinking their cases would be investigated, while they were almost never looked at. According to the newspaper, as few as one-in-50 reports actually led to a fraudster being caught and that only one-in-200 police officers were assigned to fraud investigations. This prompted the Home Office to commission a review of fraud policing in the UK, led…