Charities

The National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, has published advice for charities on how they can protect themselves against cyber-attacks such as fraud and extortion. It is based on a threat assessment on the sector

http://fundraising.co.uk/2018/03/02/gchq-advises-charities-on-defence-against-cyber-attacks/#.WprdsNJ-rIU

Action Fraud has referred the case to the City of London Police's National Fraud Intelligence Bureau.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-43169174

Shoppers all over Devon and Cornwall were allegedly conned into giving money to a Newton Abbot-based scam in which unemployed youths pretended to be charity collectors.

http://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/article.cfm?id=110972&headline=Street%20charity%20collections%20'were%20a%20scam%20and%20a%20con'%20court%20hears§ionIs=news&searchyear=2018

The incident, which happened in October, came to light after it was raised in Parliament by Southend West MP Sir David Amess. During a debate on cyber security, Sir David questioned the Minister for Security, Ben Wallace.

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/15993635.Hacker_stole___10k_from_jazz_charity/

A Telford woman who stole from a vulnerable pensioner she befriended, and who scammed other elderly people with fake sponsorship stories to fund a drug habit, has been jailed.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2018/02/16/telford-charity-fraud-drug-addict-is-jailed/

Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, has warned that fraudsters have been pretending to be the British Council to trick people into handing over money

https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/action-fraud-warns-that-charity-s-name-being-used-in-scams.html

The Charities Commission has written to Oxfam 'as a matter of urgency' to find out more of the Oxford-based charity's conduct following a major disaster in 2011.

http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/15986015.Charities_Commission_writes_to_Oxfam__as_a_matter_of_urgency__following_sex_allegations/

Police are investigating a woman after she went missing following a fraud probe into the charity where she volunteered

http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/tfn-news/missing-woman-at-centre-of-charity-fraud-probe

Most fundraising is genuine. Only a small minority of collections and appeals are scams. But fraudsters are expert at hijacking our kindness and stealing our donations.

https://www.fraudadvisorypanel.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Giving-Safely-WEB-Oct17.pdf

The two founders of a Birmingham anti-bullying charity are to appear in court, charged with fraud.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/founders-action-4-bullying-charity-14178075