Kaley Crossthwaite, Head of Fraud, BDO LLP In recent years charities have had to react to ever-increasing financial pressures. From the far-reaching impacts of the Covid-19 […]

Tim Mitchell, Content Director, Get Safe Online You can be sure that whenever there’s a crisis, it will be accompanied by fraudsters preying on people’s emotions, […]

Fraud Advisory Panel This year’s Charity Fraud Awareness Week will take place from Monday 17 – Friday 21 October 2022, the Fraud Advisory Panel have announced. […]

Mark Moore, Director, South West Cyber Resilience Centre You’ve been round the block, and you know what a fraud looks like. You’re on the lookout for […]

Phil Sapey, Counter Fraud Manager, Cancer Research UK In 2018 I saw fraud described as an ‘infinite game’ and in 2020 I happened across a webinar […]

Alan Bryce, Business Fraud Campaign Manager, Fraud Advisory Panel All organisations need to buy in goods and services. Regardless of whether you rely on a handful […]

As we emerge from the pandemic we are seeing the threat of fraud and risk to finances move to more of a cyber dependant phase – where actors are relying increasingly on computers and internet connected devices.

According to the National Crime Agency, fraud is now the most prevalent type of crime in England and Wales and a significant rising problem for charities.

Payment diversion is a type of impersonation fraud. In its most basic form, it started when humans began exchanging products and services for payment, be that early coinage, a sheep, a cartwheel or a flagon of wine.