17
May
2013
By Calvin at 07:47 GMT, 13 years ago
The following news item is from Action Fraud, and has been kindly forwarded to us by Graham Houghton, a friend of The Crime Prevention Website.
The charity Crimestoppers has launched a Charity Fraud Line service to take information about charity fraud. Charity fraud currently defrauds registered charities in the UK of over £1 billion every year.
The Charity Fraud Line is a 24/7 service that helps to protect public donations to various charities from being misused. Its aim is to take information anonymously from those who have knowledge or a well-grounded suspicion that a member of a charity, be it management, staff or volunteer, may be acting dishonestly and committing fraud.
Staff at charities can give information anonymously by calling 08000 232 101 or by visiting www.charityfraudline.co.uk.
Since Crimestoppers inception 25 years ago the charity has never broken its promise of anonymity. Crimestoppers Founder, Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC, said: “As a charity itself, Crimestoppers is pleased to be launching this new service and supporting other third sector bodies that are being subject to fraud which has a huge financial impact on the good causes they work hard towards”
More about the new Charity Fraud Line: http://www.charityfraudline.co.uk/about
Crimestoppers: http://crimestoppers-uk.org/
Action Fraud: If you are a victim of fraud and want to report the matter call Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or use their on-line fraud reporting tool: http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report-a-fraud-including-online-crime-questions You will be supplied with a police crime reference number.
