Written by Richard Hurley, Communications Manager, CIFAS – The UK’s Fraud Prevention Service Analysis of frauds recorded on the CIFAS Internal Fraud Database reveals another sharp increase in the level of staff fraud during 2013 (when compared with 2012). Within this increase, however, several interesting variations have been spotted: There was an 18% rise in […]
Written by Richard Hurley, Communications Manager, CIFAS – The UK’s Fraud Prevention Service The frauds recorded to the CIFAS Staff/Internal Fraud Database in 2013 help to underline not only what insider threats have occurred, but where the real vulnerabilities lie. Fundamentally, of course, vulnerability is something that will always be tied up with risk: and […]
Written by Sophie Keen, Staff Fraud Recruitment Manager – CIFAS – The UK’s Fraud Prevention Service Since the last HireRight blog post written by Arjun Medhi, employment application frauds reported to the CIFAS Staff Fraud Database have continued to rise. An employment application fraud is categorised by CIFAS as when a job applicant has knowingly […]
CIFAS – the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service today releases The True Cost of Insider Fraud, A report based on research conducted by the University of Portsmouth’s Centre for Counter Fraud Studies. The findings give organisations much food for thought: Losses from internal frauds do not just include the sum lost to a fraudster, but encompass a […]
Employment application fraud is the number one insider threat to organisations, representing 48% of all the staff fraud cases reported to the CIFAS Staff Fraud Database during the first six months of 2013. written by Arjun Medhi, Staff Fraud Operations Manager, CIFAS – The UK’s Fraud Prevention Service In my previous HireRight blog post, I […]
CIFAS – the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service, today released Staff Fraudscape: a 38-page report that analyses the insider or staff frauds recorded by the Members of the CIFAS Staff Fraud Database during 2012 and the reasons behind the 43% increase recorded. At the launch event, hosted by HireRight, attendees heard from speakers from CIFAS, Transport for […]
