Fraud Intelligence

Doubts have been raised over the impact of a new UK 'failure to prevent fraud offence', which came into effect on 1 September.

Already, it is hard, approaching impossible, to be confident that content seen and heard online is genuine, with advances in deepfake creation, powered by AI, accelerating the erosion in trust. Sarah Gibbons & Keith Nuthall investigate the latest iterations in moving image manipulation and the tools seeking to catch it.

The volume of fraud reported in England and Wales soared by 31%, to 4.16 million cases, over the year to 31 March 2025, despite the former Conservative government's 2023 Economic Crime Plan 2.