A typical fraudster?
A new report suggests forty-something males most likely to be victims of fraud...
New figures released by CIFAS suggest that men in their forties are most likely to find themselves becoming victims of identity fraud than any other demographic.
| Product Range | Average age (Male Identity Fraud victims) | Average age (Female Identity Fraud victims) |
| Asset Finance | 43.27 | 43.36 |
| Bank Accounts | 47.81 | 46.60 |
| Communications | 45.15 | 40.67 |
| Plastic Cards | 46.17 | 43.14 |
| Insurance | 50.92 | 46.17 |
| Loans | 45.84 | 42.68 |
| Mortgages | 48.16 | 39.73 |
| ‘All in one’ / Combined (e.g. mortgage, loan and bank account) products | 47.07 | 43.44 |
Whilst the information shows the identities fraudster’s are most likely to utilise, what do we actually know about the fraudster’s themselves?
192.com Business Services recently published the Modus Operandi Whitepaper; this sets out ways in which fraudster’s work, including how they gain false identities and how they use these to their advantage.
Another essential tool for Fraud Managers is sharing data in order to gain fraud alerts. By sharing data on fraudulent transactions, fraud managers are able, in turn to receive real time fraud alerts, to ensure increased intelligence and more efficient fraud detection.

