Profit warns firms to report every fraud case to police
Travel firms have been warned it is vital to report every fraud to police as individual cases could be part of larger organised crimes affecting the trade.
In the seventh part of an email campaign by Prevention of Fraud in Travel (Profit) and the Fraud Intelligence Network (Fin) with the City of London Police, the group said police rely on information from companies to help protect the broader industry from fraud.
The campaign, which is sending out counter fraud advice to businesses across the trade during the ten-week Counter Fraud 2019 Campaign, said in its latest installment: “Many frauds that affect industry appear to be an isolated one-off event but in fact are organised by criminal groups and affect many other companies.
“The police rely on your information, as industry practitioners, to help them stop fraud and money laundering criminals. Everyone has a duty to report crime and it is your responsibility to do the right thing and tell the police so that they can act.”