• Motorists warned of online insurance scams
    • 29/11/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) and Aviva have launched a new campaign to help drivers avoid motor insurance scams online. This comes after it has been revealed countless vulnerable people are being targeted by paid-ad spoofing scams every day. Paid-ad spoofing involves firms paying for search engine adverts [...]
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  • IFB ramps up campaign to mark Fraud Awareness Week
    • 13/11/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Insurance Fraud Bureau has launched a targeted digital marketing campaign to highlight the risks and consequences of fraud. Fraud is the most experienced crime in the UK, costing approximately £7bn annually, with insurance fraud alone costing insurers upwards of £2bn a year. As part of Fraud Awareness [...]
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  • More customers consider insurance fraud
    • 07/07/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    New YouGov findings published by the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) suggest a growing number of young adults could turn to insurance fraud as the cost-of-living crisis deepens. As many as one in four young adults now say they would ‘likely’ consider an act of insurance fraud if they were struggling financially. [...]
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  • Moped fraudsters seek capital gains
    • 22/06/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Crash-for-cash scam hits the capital Drivers are being warned of a widespread network of crash for cash fraudsters on mopeds who are thought to have attempted £27m worth of bogus claims already. A multi-agency investigation led by the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB), City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud [...]
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  • Crash for cash scams spreading
    • 27/06/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Insurance Fraud Bureau says it has found evidence that ‘crash for cash’ fraudsters are starting to operate in new areas in the UK. The ‘crash for cash’ scam sees fraudsters slam on their brakes in congested areas so the car behind drives into the back of them, then claiming compensation. The IFB said [...]
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  • IFB launches landmark consultation
    • 04/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has taken a landmark step towards extending its services to defendant lawyers, investigators and other industry suppliers, by launching a consultation on ‘affiliate membership’. The consultation, launched today, invites suppliers assisting insurers in the fight against fraud to [...]
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  • IFB evolution ‘on track’
    • 21/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The evolution of the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) is ‘on track,’ according to the Bureau’s strategy project board Chair, Mihir Pandya. Following a cross-industry consultation in 2014, the IFB’s new five-year strategy (2015 – 2019) was launched, with two primary areas of development [...]
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  • Public fights back against insurance cheats
    • 08/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The UK public is being thanked by the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) for fighting back against insurance cheats and reporting valuable information they have about insurance fraud to the IFB’s ‘Cheatline’. In 2014 over 500 reports were made to the Cheatline every month by members of the public, 6,347 reports in [...]
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  • Motorists cutting corners with insurance
    • 13/08/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Thousands of motorists are paying a high price, in some cases driving illegally, by cutting corners when buying motor insurance according to latest figures out today from the ABI (Association of British Insurers). ABI research shows that in 2014 insurers uncovered 212,000 attempted dishonest applications for motor [...]
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  • Thirty-eight charged over ‘cash for crash’
    • 28/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Thirty-eight people have been charged over an alleged ‘crash for cash’ insurance fraud in Cumbria. Police said the offences took place across the county between 2010 and 2014, and the uncovering of the offences comes as a result of a joint operation between Cumbria Police, the Insurance Fraud Bureau and the [...]
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