Josh Gunnell, head of fraud & ID pre-sales at TransUnion in the UK, comments on the recent ONS fraud statistics
“The latest quarterly fraud figures from the Office for National Statistics highlight the extent of the impact of the pandemic, with fraud up 36% for the year to September 2021, compared with the year ending September 2019, at 5.1 million fraud offences. Much of this was driven by financial and retail fraud, which is unsurprising, given the behavioural changes and increased digitisation we’ve seen as a result of COVID-19.