The Joint Fraud Taskforce is a partnership between the private sector, Government and law enforcement. The Joint Fraud Taskforce met on 11 July 2023, 21 November 2022, 22 March 2022 and 21 October 2021.

The Joint Fraud Taskforce meeting minutes are available on Gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/joint-fraud-taskforce#joint-fraud-taskforce-meeting-minutes

The goals of the JFT are to:

• Help prevent the public from falling victim to fraud by working across industry sectors, regulators, the third sector and law enforcement.
• Develop technical innovation and solutions to harden systems and close vulnerabilities that criminals exploit.
• Apply dynamic and meaningful protect messaging designed to induce more cautious behaviour when making financial or data transactions.

Following its relaunch on 21^st October, the JFT Board is working with industry to develop quantitative and qualitative targets for each working group. These will be published in the action plan, which will form part of the strategy that will be published in 2022.

The goals of the JFT are to:

• Help prevent the public from falling victim to fraud by working across industry sectors, regulators, the third sector and law enforcement.
• Develop technical innovation and solutions to harden systems and close vulnerabilities that criminals exploit.
• Apply dynamic and meaningful protect messaging designed to induce more cautious behaviour when making financial or data transactions.

Following its relaunch on 21^st October, the JFT Board is working with industry to develop quantitative and qualitative targets for each working group. These will be published in the action plan, which will form part of the strategy that will be published in 2022.

The Joint Fraud Taskforce (JFT) is a joint public and private sector Board, chaired by the Security Minister. Its mission statement is:

To bring together partners from across the public and private sectors to tackle fraud and substantially improve the protections in place for the public and businesses.

The goals of the JFT are to:

• Help prevent the public from falling victim to fraud by working across industry sectors, regulators, the third sector and law enforcement.
• Develop technical innovation and solutions to harden systems and close vulnerabilities that criminals exploit.
• Apply dynamic and meaningful protect messaging designed to induce more cautious behaviour when making financial or data transactions.

The JFT’s remit and structure is built around formulation and delivery of the voluntary industry elements of the Fraud Action Plan, which will be published in full in 2022. This work includes:

• Overseeing the delivery and success of the sector charter programme, (through charter working groups);
• Overseeing work on cross-industry action to tackle online fraud (through the Online Fraud Steering Group);
• Overseeing work by industry, government and the third sector to better support victims (through the Victims Working Group);
• Overseeing work to better align and improve messaging and communications campaigns on fraud (through the Communications Group).

Following its relaunch on 21^st October, the JFT Board is working with industry to develop quantitative and qualitative targets for each working group.

Membership information is available on GOV.UK. The following organisations make up the current membership of the JFT:

• Home Office
• National Economic Crime Centre (NECC)
• City of London Police
• National Trading Standards
• UK Finance
• British Retail Consortium (BRC)
• Cifas
• National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
• OFCOM
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Victims Commissioner
• Citizens Advice
• Victim Support
• FCA
• Law Society of England and Wales
• Association of British Insurers (ABI)
• TechUK
• Communications Crime Strategy Group (CCSG)
• TUFF
• Serious Fraud Office
• DCMS
• HMT

Individual attendance may vary and full lists of attendees for each meeting are published with the minutes of JFT after the meeting has taken place.

The JFT Board will meet at least three times a year, and the second meeting will take place in early 2022.

Previous dates of meetings and attendance information is available on GOV.UK. Prior to 21 October 2021, the Joint Fraud Taskforce last met on 18 November 2020. The meeting was chaired by Mike Haley of Cifas and was attended by representative from the following organisations:

• City of London Police
• National Economic Crime Centre
• National Trading Standards
• Nationwide
• Telefonica
• UK Finance
• BRC
• NCSC
• Home Office

The Joint Fraud Taskforce (JFT) is a joint public and private sector Board, chaired by the Security Minister. Its mission statement is:

To bring together partners from across the public and private sectors to tackle fraud and substantially improve the protections in place for the public and businesses.

The goals of the JFT are to:

• Help prevent the public from falling victim to fraud by working across industry sectors, regulators, the third sector and law enforcement.
• Develop technical innovation and solutions to harden systems and close vulnerabilities that criminals exploit.
• Apply dynamic and meaningful protect messaging designed to induce more cautious behaviour when making financial or data transactions.

The JFT’s remit and structure is built around formulation and delivery of the voluntary industry elements of the Fraud Action Plan, which will be published in full in 2022. This work includes:

• Overseeing the delivery and success of the sector charter programme, (through charter working groups);
• Overseeing work on cross-industry action to tackle online fraud (through the Online Fraud Steering Group);
• Overseeing work by industry, government and the third sector to better support victims (through the Victims Working Group);
• Overseeing work to better align and improve messaging and communications campaigns on fraud (through the Communications Group).

Following its relaunch on 21^st October, the JFT Board is working with industry to develop quantitative and qualitative targets for each working group.

Membership information is available on GOV.UK. The following organisations make up the current membership of the JFT:

• Home Office
• National Economic Crime Centre (NECC)
• City of London Police
• National Trading Standards
• UK Finance
• British Retail Consortium (BRC)
• Cifas
• National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
• OFCOM
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Victims Commissioner
• Citizens Advice
• Victim Support
• FCA
• Law Society of England and Wales
• Association of British Insurers (ABI)
• TechUK
• Communications Crime Strategy Group (CCSG)
• TUFF
• Serious Fraud Office
• DCMS
• HMT

Individual attendance may vary and full lists of attendees for each meeting are published with the minutes of JFT after the meeting has taken place.

The JFT Board will meet at least three times a year, and the second meeting will take place in early 2022.

Previous dates of meetings and attendance information is available on GOV.UK. Prior to 21 October 2021, the Joint Fraud Taskforce last met on 18 November 2020. The meeting was chaired by Mike Haley of Cifas and was attended by representative from the following organisations:

• City of London Police
• National Economic Crime Centre
• National Trading Standards
• Nationwide
• Telefonica
• UK Finance
• BRC
• NCSC
• Home Office

The Joint Fraud Taskforce (JFT) is a joint public and private sector Board, chaired by the Security Minister. Its mission statement is:

To bring together partners from across the public and private sectors to tackle fraud and substantially improve the protections in place for the public and businesses.

The goals of the JFT are to:

• Help prevent the public from falling victim to fraud by working across industry sectors, regulators, the third sector and law enforcement.
• Develop technical innovation and solutions to harden systems and close vulnerabilities that criminals exploit.
• Apply dynamic and meaningful protect messaging designed to induce more cautious behaviour when making financial or data transactions.

The JFT’s remit and structure is built around formulation and delivery of the voluntary industry elements of the Fraud Action Plan, which will be published in full in 2022. This work includes:

• Overseeing the delivery and success of the sector charter programme, (through charter working groups);
• Overseeing work on cross-industry action to tackle online fraud (through the Online Fraud Steering Group);
• Overseeing work by industry, government and the third sector to better support victims (through the Victims Working Group);
• Overseeing work to better align and improve messaging and communications campaigns on fraud (through the Communications Group).

Following its relaunch on 21^st October, the JFT Board is working with industry to develop quantitative and qualitative targets for each working group.

Membership information is available on GOV.UK. The following organisations make up the current membership of the JFT:

• Home Office
• National Economic Crime Centre (NECC)
• City of London Police
• National Trading Standards
• UK Finance
• British Retail Consortium (BRC)
• Cifas
• National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
• OFCOM
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Victims Commissioner
• Citizens Advice
• Victim Support
• FCA
• Law Society of England and Wales
• Association of British Insurers (ABI)
• TechUK
• Communications Crime Strategy Group (CCSG)
• TUFF
• Serious Fraud Office
• DCMS
• HMT

Individual attendance may vary and full lists of attendees for each meeting are published with the minutes of JFT after the meeting has taken place.

The JFT Board will meet at least three times a year, and the second meeting will take place in early 2022.

Previous dates of meetings and attendance information is available on GOV.UK. Prior to 21 October 2021, the Joint Fraud Taskforce last met on 18 November 2020. The meeting was chaired by Mike Haley of Cifas and was attended by representative from the following organisations:

• City of London Police
• National Economic Crime Centre
• National Trading Standards
• Nationwide
• Telefonica
• UK Finance
• BRC
• NCSC
• Home Office

The Joint Fraud Taskforce (JFT) is a joint public and private sector Board, chaired by the Security Minister. Its mission statement is:

To bring together partners from across the public and private sectors to tackle fraud and substantially improve the protections in place for the public and businesses.

The goals of the JFT are to:

• Help prevent the public from falling victim to fraud by working across industry sectors, regulators, the third sector and law enforcement.
• Develop technical innovation and solutions to harden systems and close vulnerabilities that criminals exploit.
• Apply dynamic and meaningful protect messaging designed to induce more cautious behaviour when making financial or data transactions.

The JFT’s remit and structure is built around formulation and delivery of the voluntary industry elements of the Fraud Action Plan, which will be published in full in 2022. This work includes:

• Overseeing the delivery and success of the sector charter programme, (through charter working groups);
• Overseeing work on cross-industry action to tackle online fraud (through the Online Fraud Steering Group);
• Overseeing work by industry, government and the third sector to better support victims (through the Victims Working Group);
• Overseeing work to better align and improve messaging and communications campaigns on fraud (through the Communications Group).

Following its relaunch on 21^st October, the JFT Board is working with industry to develop quantitative and qualitative targets for each working group.

Membership information is available on GOV.UK. The following organisations make up the current membership of the JFT:

• Home Office
• National Economic Crime Centre (NECC)
• City of London Police
• National Trading Standards
• UK Finance
• British Retail Consortium (BRC)
• Cifas
• National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
• OFCOM
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Victims Commissioner
• Citizens Advice
• Victim Support
• FCA
• Law Society of England and Wales
• Association of British Insurers (ABI)
• TechUK
• Communications Crime Strategy Group (CCSG)
• TUFF
• Serious Fraud Office
• DCMS
• HMT

Individual attendance may vary and full lists of attendees for each meeting are published with the minutes of JFT after the meeting has taken place.

The JFT Board will meet at least three times a year, and the second meeting will take place in early 2022.

Previous dates of meetings and attendance information is available on GOV.UK. Prior to 21 October 2021, the Joint Fraud Taskforce last met on 18 November 2020. The meeting was chaired by Mike Haley of Cifas and was attended by representative from the following organisations:

• City of London Police
• National Economic Crime Centre
• National Trading Standards
• Nationwide
• Telefonica
• UK Finance
• BRC
• NCSC
• Home Office

The Joint Fraud Taskforce (JFT) is a joint public and private sector Board, chaired by the Security Minister. Its mission statement is:

To bring together partners from across the public and private sectors to tackle fraud and substantially improve the protections in place for the public and businesses.

The goals of the JFT are to:

• Help prevent the public from falling victim to fraud by working across industry sectors, regulators, the third sector and law enforcement.
• Develop technical innovation and solutions to harden systems and close vulnerabilities that criminals exploit.
• Apply dynamic and meaningful protect messaging designed to induce more cautious behaviour when making financial or data transactions.

The JFT’s remit and structure is built around formulation and delivery of the voluntary industry elements of the Fraud Action Plan, which will be published in full in 2022. This work includes:

• Overseeing the delivery and success of the sector charter programme, (through charter working groups);
• Overseeing work on cross-industry action to tackle online fraud (through the Online Fraud Steering Group);
• Overseeing work by industry, government and the third sector to better support victims (through the Victims Working Group);
• Overseeing work to better align and improve messaging and communications campaigns on fraud (through the Communications Group).

Following its relaunch on 21^st October, the JFT Board is working with industry to develop quantitative and qualitative targets for each working group.

Membership information is available on GOV.UK. The following organisations make up the current membership of the JFT:

• Home Office
• National Economic Crime Centre (NECC)
• City of London Police
• National Trading Standards
• UK Finance
• British Retail Consortium (BRC)
• Cifas
• National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
• OFCOM
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Victims Commissioner
• Citizens Advice
• Victim Support
• FCA
• Law Society of England and Wales
• Association of British Insurers (ABI)
• TechUK
• Communications Crime Strategy Group (CCSG)
• TUFF
• Serious Fraud Office
• DCMS
• HMT

Individual attendance may vary and full lists of attendees for each meeting are published with the minutes of JFT after the meeting has taken place.

The JFT Board will meet at least three times a year, and the second meeting will take place in early 2022.

Previous dates of meetings and attendance information is available on GOV.UK. Prior to 21 October 2021, the Joint Fraud Taskforce last met on 18 November 2020. The meeting was chaired by Mike Haley of Cifas and was attended by representative from the following organisations:

• City of London Police
• National Economic Crime Centre
• National Trading Standards
• Nationwide
• Telefonica
• UK Finance
• BRC
• NCSC
• Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times and on what dates the Joint Fraud Taskforce has met since its initial inception in February 2016.

From its inception in February 2016, the Joint Fraud Taskforce (JFT) has held a total of 27 meetings, including the recent relaunch on 21 October 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will publish the Fraud Action Plan.

Work on the Fraud Action Plan has continued at pace since it’s inception in February 2021 and the government intend to publish the final plan in early 2022.

The Government is committed to tackling all forms of crime, including those which exploit technology and the internet. The Government continues to work alongside various industries to close down vulnerabilities and prevent fraud that occurs both online and offline. We are also considering all routes to ensure law enforcement have the tools they need to go after these criminals and to protect the vulnerable.

Our efforts to tackle online scams have been ramping up, including working with the National Cyber Security Centre to establish a new Suspicious Email Reporting Service which was launched in April 2020. This service allows the public to report potential scams safely and effectively. As of 28 February 2021, the number of reports received stand at more than 5,000,000 with the removal of more than 36,000 scams and 71,000 URLs.

We are currently in the process of reforming the Joint Fraud Taskforce to reinvigorate the forum to expand our public-private partnership approach, as outlined in the Economic Crime Plan. The refreshed board, chaired at Ministerial level, will have an expanded membership to involve a wider network of stakeholders in our fraud prevention activity.

The Joint Fraud Taskforce Management Board has met on several occasions since 20 June 2018. They have been reviewing the work of the Joint Fraud Taskforce and how the group is structured, to ensure it is able to respond to the highest harm fraud threats we face, using all the powers and resources of its members to maximise impact. The Joint Fraud Taskforce Management Board will publicly report on their new approach shortly.

The Joint Fraud Taskforce will continue to operate, working as a public and private partnership to tackle fraud and to protect victims.

The threat posed by frauds enabled by social engineering, such as authorised push payments frauds, is one this Government takes very seriously. Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics data showed there were 3.6m fraud offences against individuals in the year to September 2016, as estimated by the Crime Survey for England and Wales. The statistics are presented in terms of fraud type (for example ‘bank and credit card fraud’, ‘advanced fee fraud’, etc.) rather than by the method used to commit the fraud.

Through the Joint Fraud Taskforce we are taking steps to ensure that individuals, including the most vulnerable and susceptible are protected from all types of frauds. The Taskforce is: investing in a nationwide fraud prevention campaign ‘Take 5’, funded by the financial sector and Government, so that individuals know how to act when faced by a fraudster to avoid being scammed; introducing a BSI standard so that victims receive a consistent victim care response, closely linked to their individual needs; and, exploring ways in which more stolen funds could be repatriated back to the victims of fraud, stopping the money from getting into the hands of the criminal.

Finally, the Taskforce is also working with the Payment Service Regulator (PSR) following its response to the Which? Super-complaint asking for greater protections for victims of push payment frauds. The PSR will continue to drive forward the programme of work it has developed to better protect consumers and increase awareness of payment scams.

The threat posed by frauds enabled by social engineering, such as authorised push payments frauds, is one this Government takes very seriously. Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics data showed there were 3.6m fraud offences against individuals in the year to September 2016, as estimated by the Crime Survey for England and Wales. The statistics are presented in terms of fraud type (for example ‘bank and credit card fraud’, ‘advanced fee fraud’, etc.) rather than by the method used to commit the fraud.

Through the Joint Fraud Taskforce we are taking steps to ensure that individuals, including the most vulnerable and susceptible are protected from all types of frauds. The Taskforce is: investing in a nationwide fraud prevention campaign ‘Take 5’, funded by the financial sector and Government, so that individuals know how to act when faced by a fraudster to avoid being scammed; introducing a BSI standard so that victims receive a consistent victim care response, closely linked to their individual needs; and, exploring ways in which more stolen funds could be repatriated back to the victims of fraud, stopping the money from getting into the hands of the criminal.

Finally, the Taskforce is also working with the Payment Service Regulator (PSR) following its response to the Which? Super-complaint asking for greater protections for victims of push payment frauds. The PSR will continue to drive forward the programme of work it has developed to better protect consumers and increase awareness of payment scams.