Business Fraud

Articles on how your business can avoid becoming a victim of fraud. Essential advice on how to make sure you can identify financial fraud through risk awareness and how to set up protection measures. Helpful guidance to enable you to protect you and your customers from fraudsters.

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Why young SME owners are easy targets for fraud attacks

SME owners under the age of 25 are more likely to be targeted by invoice or CEO fraudsters, a new study reveals.

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Employees to encourage business leaders to fight against fraud

Employees in the UK are encouraged to take responsibility for helping prevent fraud by urging their bosses to provide security training.

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Why small businesses are putting themselves at risk of financial fraud

Small business leaders are not doing enough to protect their employees against fraud, new research reveals.

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How to help your customers avoid online fraud

Here, Tony Anscombe reveals five important steps businesses can take to help their customers in the battle against online fraud.

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How to protect your small business from fraud

In this piece, in association with Boost Capital, we look at how best to make sure your company is safeguarded against fraud.

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Fraud costs UK SMEs billions per year

The average price of fraud to small companies is £3,450 annually, research finds.

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Spiralling fraud costs small businesses dearly

Small and medium-sized enterprises are losing £22 billion every year to fraudulent transactions, according to new research.

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Companies should be wary of rising fraud

Businesses should educate themselves on how to protect against fraud, especially from 'sophisticated' internet criminals.

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FRC: Firms should be extra cautious about fraud

Record levels of fraud in the UK means companies should ensure they have watertight internal control procedures to prevent losing out, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) warns.

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New law stops 31 types of scam

Regulation is about to come into force to protect consumers from 'unfair trading practices'.

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Banks make it ‘too easy’ for fraudsters

Corporate identity theft costs British business as much as £50 million a year. Yet according to security research company Heise Security, four out of seven online banks it tested have failed to secure their websites after being told of serious security issues over a month ago.

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Beware corporate identity fraud

As National Identity Fraud Prevention Week draws to a close, UK businesses are being reminded that they - and not just individuals - must remain vigilant, in order to ward off the potentially disastrous consequences facing their ventures.