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<p>The latest fraud and cyber crime statistics are published at: <a href="https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/fraud-stats" target="_blank">Fraud and cyber crime statistics | Action Fraud</a>. In addition, Action Fraud’s Interactive Dashboard allows users to quickly identify the most commonly reported fraud and cyber crimes, with various filters in place. This is available at: <a href="https://colp.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/0334150e430449cf8ac917e347897d46" target="_blank">NFIB Dashboard (Public) (arcgis.com)</a> We will consider how to improve the public data as we make improvements to the overall service as part of the upgrade which will be complete by 2024.</p><p>The volumes of total fraud victims reported to Action Fraud for the period April 2022 - March 2023 has been copied below. However, a breakdown by losses incurred is not available at present.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>04/2022 - 03/2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Victim Type</p></td><td><p>Report Volume*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Individual</p></td><td><p>99,416</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Organisation</p></td><td><p>12,578</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>710</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>112,704</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>*Fraud only (excludes cyber-crime)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The data published on the Action Fraud as set out above do not include attempted frauds, which Action Fraud categorises as ‘information reports’.</p><p>The statement on the ‘About the data’ page on the NFIB Fraud and Cyber Crime Dashboard, which says that ‘only fraud and cyber crime offences amounting to a crime under the Home Office Crime Recording rules are included in the data’ is accurate.</p> |