Scam offences continue to mushroom

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Scam offences continue to mushroom

By Adam Cadle

26/09/2022

Fraud offences increased by 25% to 4.5 million offences compared with the year ending March 2020, driven by large increases in advance fee fraud and consumer and retail fraud, the ONS has said.

The proportion of fraud incidents that were cyber-related increased to 61% from 53% in the year ending March 2020, suggesting that much of the increase in fraud offences was because of a rise in cyber-related fraud and may be related to behavioural changes during the COVID-19 pandemic and increased online activity.

Computer misuse increased by 89% to 1.6 million offences compared with the year ending March 2020, driven by a large increase in unauthorised access to personal information (hacking) offences.

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