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<p>Victims of fraud and cyber-crime in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are encouraged
to report these crimes directly to a centralised reporting centre called Action Fraud.
Fraud victims in Scotland also reported crimes directly into Action Fraud until December
2019, when Police Scotland decided that victims should report incidents directly to
them, via their 101 service. These reports are now recorded separately from Action
Fraud data.</p><p> </p><p>Action Fraud does not categorise fraud reports by the mode
in which the fraud was conducted. Fraud can often encompass several different methods
of communication, so it may not necessarily be clear to the victim what the primary
vector for this kind of criminal attack was. Victim locations are only recorded when
sufficient information is provided. For these reasons, the data requested is not held
centrally.</p>
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