Businesses Against Scams
Businesses Against Scams has been set up by the National Trading Standards Scams Team and includes a number of resources that companies can share with their employees, which can educate them on a variety of common business related frauds. Since COVID-19 employees working from home are having to make decisions on their own without verification from their colleagues, making businesses more susceptible to scams and fraud.
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What is a Business Against Scams?
Welcome to Businesses Against Scams. People are working from home more than ever which has led to less opportunities to talk to colleagues and a different working environment. These are all factors that criminals are using to their advantage to commit fraud. Employees are having to make decisions on their own without verification from their colleagues, making businesses more susceptible to scams and fraud.
Keep Your Employees Safe
Stronger passwords & 2FA
Supporting people to use stronger passwords and setting up two factor authentication.
Report problems
Ensuring staff know how to report problems, especially those related to security.
Create ‘how-to’ guides
Creating ‘How to’ guides for new software and tools staff may be using.
Use VPNs
Using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) will increase your business security by hiding your Internet Protocol (IP) address.
Registered Business Resources
Businesses Against Scams has been set up by the National Trading Standards (NTS) Scams Team and includes a number of resources that companies can share with their employees which can educate them on a variety of common business related frauds, these are a PowerPoint presentation on business scams as well as fact sheets on the following:
Government grant & tax rebate scams
Companies have been contacted by criminals offering help with securing more money as part of a government program or to convince them that they are owed a tax refund.
CEO fraud
This is a sophisticated scam that plays on the authority of company directors and senior managers.
Invoice/mandate fraud
In 2022, UK Finance reported that businesses had lost over £49.5m to invoice fraud.
Tech support scams
With more people working remotely and IT systems under pressure, criminals may impersonate well-known companies and offer to repair devices.