• 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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  • Aviva reveals changing face of fraud
    • 25/05/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Aviva uncovered more than 11,000 instances of insurance fraud last year, with motor accounting for about 60% of all fraudulent claims detected. It found that the proportion of fraud detected on motor injury claims rose by 10.7% last year, although it is expected that the whiplash reforms introduced at the start of [...]
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  • Birmingham tops crash-for-cash list
    • 17/05/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Birmingham remains the country’s most prevalent area for crash-for-cash fraud. Analysis by the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) of 2.7 million motor insurance claims made across the UK in between 1 October 2019 to 31 December 2020 identified over 170,000 claims which could be linked to suspected crash-for-cash [...]
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  • Crash for cash dropped by £60m
    • 17/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    New figures released suggest the cost of ‘crash for cash’ fraud has dropped by almost £60 million in the last three years following a major crackdown by insurers and the police, forcing insurance cheats to change tack. Statistics from the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) indicate an overall decline in ‘crash for [...]
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  • Bradford bodyshop involved in insurance scam
    • 09/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The owner of a bodyshop that boasts of clients such as top footballers and music superstars, has paid back tens of thousands of pounds to an insurance company after it was found to be involved in an alleged ‘cash-for-crash’ scheme. The Yorkshire Post reported that Naveed Khan, the founder of Enkahnz in [...]
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  • Two men sentenced for staging crash
    • 06/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Two men who met and became friends in prison were yesterday (Thursday, 5 November) sentenced at the Old Bailey after staging a ‘cash for crash’ accident in order to claim over £16k on their car insurance. Kais Bougoussa, aged 46 (1/5/69) from Stratford Road, E3 pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud by [...]
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  • Insurance fraud uncovered by telematics
    • 14/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Insurance companies are now fighting fraudulent claims by using driving data and reports of journeys recorded in black boxes installed under car dashboards. For the first time, an insurer has been able to use the information from the black box technology, or telematics, to successfully prove in court that an [...]
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  • Cash-for-crash fraudster jailed
    • 05/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A man has been jailed after it emerged that he claimed money for an incident that occurred in Chiswick, yet his accomplice wasn’t even in the country at the time. Mohamed Labre Chiadmi, also known as Adam Leno, pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation and two counts of making false declarations to obtain [...]
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