FRAUDLINE
Dunk frauds
in hot water
One in five insurance claims are different from the
rest: They are fraudulent. These fakes are stealing
from the public purse – and it is your money they are
taking. Do not duck out from reporting their crimes.
E
aling Council sometimes
finds itself on the end of
fraudulent insurance claims:
Either completely fabricated,
or exaggerated, by people looking to
make some money.
Every year, this fraud results in
millions of pounds of taxpayers’ funds
being wasted in the UK. These criminal
attempts to steal from the public purse
are not victimless crimes.
You, the taxpayer, are always left to
pick up the bill – and, consequently,
funding for our local services suffers.
Even if an insurance claim is turned
down, you are still paying for it to be
investigated and defended. Every
pound we save by preventing this type
of fraud could be spent on local services
instead. In these tough economic times,
it is especially important.
By calling FraudLine, you can help
us stop these crimes against our
community. If you think you have some
information about a fraudulent insurance
claim you can call 0800 328 9270 – a
special 24-hour hotline. It is free and
confidential, and is manned by people
with the expertise to help.
The council, and FraudLine, has
the support of the governmentfunded Insurance Fraud
Enforcement Department, led
by City of London Police.
TYPES OF FRAUD
There are common
types of insurance
fraud. These
include making
exaggerated
claims by
pretending an
accident was far
worse than it really
was; untrue personal
injury claims that
describe a false set of
circumstances, time or place
of an accident; completely bogus
claims that use invented symptoms or
an incident that never occurred; and
multiple claims where the fraudster
knowingly makes claims for the same
injury in a number of different local
authority areas.
FRAUDLINE
Call the 24-hour freephone hotline
0800 328 9270
around ealing
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