Scams and Fraud

Advance Fee Fraud involves a payment in advance for a promise of wealth, wills, gifts, prizes or employment. They contact their targets by mail, phone, fax, or email.

Commonly known as scams, these frauds target the unwary and arrive in the form of unsolicited email, letters or telephone calls.

Card fraud includes the use of stolen cards to make direct purchases.

Their objective is to send ‘bad money’ which may be in the form of a stolen cheque or forged bankers draft and get ‘good money’ in return.

How to protect your company from employee and other internal threats.

Identity Fraud involves the misuse of identity information in order to commit crime.

Read our advice on how to safely use auction sites and online ticketing services.

As traditional investments become less popular due to lower returns, high yield investments have become more attractive to fraudsters.

Learn how to protect your business banking details.

Advice about money laundering.

Learn how to keep yourself safe from phishing attempts.

Learn when to report fraud to Action Fraud - the UK's national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime.

The ScamwiseNI Partnership provides information about the risks of scams and the range of scams that exist.

Tips to prevent ticket fraud.

Marketing phone calls, unsolicited letters and email are legitimate marketing practices for many companies.

Learn how to buy or sell a vehicle safely.

Read our advice on this type of fraud that uses telephones and mobile phones.

Scammers will pose as family members on WhatsApp in order to manipulate victims into transferring money. Read our advice on to spot this type of scam and what you can do if you think you’ve responded to a scam message.

Read our advice for home working and avoiding business opportunity fraud.

Find out what fraud means and how we work to prevent and investigate it.