Fighting fraud during the coronavirus crisis

The pan­dem­ic has changed var­i­ous aspects of our lives and dri­ven us online to shop, invest and date. Fraud­sters have sought to take advan­tage of our evolved ways of liv­ing and work­ing, play­ing on emo­tions and exploit­ing vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties – espe­cial­ly online. Unsur­pris­ing­ly, the num­ber of fraud and com­put­er mis­use offences surged in 2020 across the UK. How­ev­er, sta­tis­tics also show meth­ods of com­bat­ing fraud are work­ing