Types of fraud
Fraud can take many different forms but the result is always the same – you become the victim.
The best way to stop yourself becoming a victim of fraud is to understand what types of fraud are out there.
- Account takeover
- Advance fee fraud
- Asset misappropriation
- Banking
- Bankruptcy-related fraud
- Career opportunity scams
- Cheque fraud
- Cheque overpayment fraud
- Computer hacking
- Computer Software Service fraud
- Dial through fraud
- Directory scams
- Employee fraud
- Exploiting assets and information
- False accounting fraud
- Fraud recovery fraud
- Identity theft
- Impersonation of officials
- Invoice scams
- Loan scams
- Lottery scams
- Mandate fraud
- Office supply scams
- Payment fraud
- Personnel management fraud
- Phishing
- Procurement fraud
- Racing tipster scams
- Receipt fraud
- Rental fraud
- Short and long firm fraud
- Supplier and outsourcing fraud
- Tax
- Telephone scam
- Travel and subsistence fraud
- Vehicle matching scams
- West African letter fraud
- Work from home schemes
Types of fraud
Fraud can take many different forms but the result is always the same – you become the victim.
The best way to stop yourself becoming a victim of fraud is to understand what types of fraud are out there.
- Account takeover
- Advance fee fraud
- Asset misappropriation
- Banking
- Bankruptcy-related fraud
- Career opportunity scams
- Cheque fraud
- Cheque overpayment fraud
- Computer hacking
- Computer Software Service fraud
- Dial through fraud
- Directory scams
- Employee fraud
- Exploiting assets and information
- False accounting fraud
- Fraud recovery fraud
- Identity theft
- Impersonation of officials
- Invoice scams
- Loan scams
- Lottery scams
- Mandate fraud
- Office supply scams
- Payment fraud
- Personnel management fraud
- Phishing
- Procurement fraud
- Racing tipster scams
- Receipt fraud
- Rental fraud
- Short and long firm fraud
- Supplier and outsourcing fraud
- Tax
- Telephone scam
- Travel and subsistence fraud
- Vehicle matching scams
- West African letter fraud
- Work from home schemes
