Email: Fraud

(asked on 30th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to add a link to the SAFERjobs scheme to webpages where they advise the public on how to report suspicious emails and phishing attempts.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 18th May 2020

It is up to SAFERJobs to include any guidance that the government provides. The Government is, however, continuing to put out general advice to the public on staying safe online.

On 21 April the Government launched a revised Cyber Aware campaign, to coincide with the launch of the NCSC’s new Suspicious Email Reporting Service. The new campaign will:

  • Provide the public and key stakeholders (industry, academia, tech community etc) with the assurance that HMG and the Intelligence and law enforcement community are working on their behalf to minimise the cyber threat;
  • Empower the public and micro-businesses to understand the best ways to stay safe online and feel empowered to take necessary protective actions; and
  • Support NCSC and wider efforts to combat the threat ‘at source’, taking down or blocking malicious URLs and SMS messages, and working behind the scenes to stop the threat reaching the public. We will prioritise areas where there is the most need for user behaviour to change, or there is active public concern.

We also recently launched a gov.uk page on coronavirus-related fraud and cybercrime. The page includes easy-to-follow steps for people to better protect themselves and signposts other relevant advice and tips. It can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-fraud-and-cyber-crime

The public should make all reports of fraudulent phishing emails and telephone calls to Action Fraud which is the national reporting facility for fraud and cyber crime https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/

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