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<p>291218: All reports submitted to Action Fraud are subject to risk assessments,
which take into account the following:</p><ul><li>Vulnerability of the victim(s)</li><li>Priority
crime types i.e. those assessed as the highest harm across multiple categories</li><li>Financial
harm of individual or linked cases</li><li>Lines of inquiry for investigations on
suspect information or identifiers, i.e. account information, email addresses, telephone
numbers, websites</li><li>Crime or not under Home Office Counting Rules</li><li>Other
risk indicators through an assessment of key words which vary over time</li><li>Links
with other reports of similar offences</li></ul><p><strong>291223:</strong> Action
Fraud is working in conjunction with Victim Support in London to identify vulnerable
victims and provide them with additional advice and support to stop them becoming
repeat victims.</p><ul><li>All forces receive details of victims in their area each
week, which enables them to deliver victim support and provide advice and guidance
on crime prevention</li><li>Particularly high risk reports with victim care needs
are prioritised and sent to forces for further action</li><li>The National Economic
Crime Victim Care Unit (NECVCU) pilot delivers victim care for victims whose cases
have not been referred to a local police force for investigation, covering specific
force areas: City of London Police, Metropolitan Police, Nottinghamshire, West Midlands,
Kent and Greater Manchester.</li><li>NFIB Protect Alerts are issued to the public
and local neighbourhood policing teams based on reporting trends and intelligence</li><li>NFIB
disrupts websites, emails and telephone numbers reportedly engaged in fraud to prevent
further offending</li></ul><p>NFIB’s Project Recall alerts banks when reports of recent
fraudulent transactions are made, which often results in payments being stopped or
returned to the victim.</p><p>Action Fraud is the national reporting point for fraud
and cyber crime. Since April 2013, it has taken reports of these crimes on behalf
of all police forces in England and Wales. Once Action Fraud has received a crime
report, that information is considered by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB).
Where there is enough evidence available and a viable lead, actionable intelligence
packages are created and sent to the appropriate police force to consider whether
enforcement activity should take place. Neither Action Fraud nor the NFIB are investigatory
agencies. It is still for local forces to consider enforcement activity. Both Action
Fraud and the NFIB are run by the City of London Police, which is the national lead
force for fraud.</p>
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