Its estimated 40 of all crime in england and wales is fraud. Hello, its the police, open up. Fraud, it is a National Security issue. Its funding other organised crime. | you look back now and you think, how stupid were we . Yeah. But at that moment in time, it was. It was quite terrifying. Every year, fraudsters relieve us of an estimated £5 billion. Last year in kent alone, 12,000 frauds were reported. Panoramas been filming there for almost a year with the kent police fraud squad. The groups that operate tend to be from london. The whole of kent, it is targeted because its a quickjourney for them to come and pick up the cash. Weve also got quite an aged population, again, which is who they look to target, often. So it sort ofjust goes hand in hand with the sort of population type. Police are increasingly worried about something they call courierfraud. It begins with a call from a fraudster pretending to be a Police Officer or bank official, and ends with a Courier Collecting Cash or
it s estimated 40% of all crime in england and wales is fraud. hello, it s the police, open up. fraud, it is a national security issue. - it s funding other organised crime. | you look back now and you think, how stupid were we? yeah. but at that moment in time, it was. ..it was quite terrifying. every year, fraudsters relieve us of an estimated £5 billion. last year in kent alone, 12,000 frauds were reported. panorama s been filming there for almost a year with the kent police fraud squad. the groups that operate tend to be from london. the whole of kent, it is targeted because it s a quickjourney for them to come and pick up the cash. we ve also got quite an aged population, again, which is who they look to target, often. so it sort ofjust goes hand in hand with the sort of population type. police are increasingly worried about something they call courierfraud. it begins with a call from a fraudster pretending to be a police officer or bank official, and ends with a courie
0k, thank you. 0k, david, thank you. thanks for that. bye bye. ok, bye bye. it s notjust a one off they ve been preying on herfor nine years now. and that s what. that s what makes it, you know, they ve befriended her and built up some sort of relationship with mum. and she actually believes what they re saying. you know? she does. that s the sad part. police discover that david s been calling from india. that meansjo and corinne have almost no chance of recovering their mum s money. even when there is an investigation, it s quite common for that investigation to reach an end of life cycle, where money has left the uk, it s gone to a foreign jurisdiction that we cannot access and unfortunately we cannot progress that case. and that s very sad for us
in kent, 12,000 reports were made to action fraud last year. just 500 were passed on to police. so out of those 500, when we look at going to the criminaljustice system, around 4% is what we call our detection rate, which means they ended up in charges from the crown prosecution service. 4% detection rate means just 20 possible court cases from 12,000 complaints. action fraud says it s planning improvements. we are actually implementing new technology for action fraud for 2024. we need to be much better at explaining to victims how the process works and what s happening with their cases. some people become repeat victims of fraud. ..likejo and corinne s mum, carol, who has dementia.
.Panorama. Fraud now represents around 40 per cent of all reported crime in the UK, but very few cases are solved. Panorama follows Kent Police as their.