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Security expert Prof Ross Anderson has revealed how criminal gangs are spiking the drinks of unwitting strip club punters to rinse their bank accounts for tens of thousands of pounds.

It’s been a really varied week in Westminster.

Fraud is the most commonly reported crime and made up 41% of offences in England and Wales in the year to June 2022.

Fraud was the single largest category of crime in England Wales, but too few strategies are in place to combat this scourge. According to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO), fraud represented 41% of all crime against individuals in the year ending June 2022.

A new corporate criminal offence should be introduced to help incentivise all industries to play their part in combating scams, the committee said.

Successive governments have failed to tackle the scourge of what has become the countrys most common crime, with more than 40 million UK adults targeted by swindlers in the first half of this year.

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More than two-thirds of survey respondents say they take a balanced approach – business, customers and compliance – investing in fraud prevention technology.

In looking ahead to fraud transformation in 2022, it is good to review where the conversation about 2021 began: with statistics about perceptions and reality.