Last week police officers from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau Disruptions Team visited five City based serviced offices with Trading Standards, to offer practical advice to Mail Forwarders or Serviced Office providers within the City who have fallen prey to unscrupulous criminals abusing their services to sell non-regulated investments or offer commodity investment packages with a view to defrauding members of the public.
Detective sergeant Carl Dempsey from the Intervention and Prevention Team said “We visited five addresses as they had been identified as having their services used previously by fraudsters. A letter was handed to staff at the offices which in turn provided some really good feedback and intelligence and shows their eagerness to work with us. This clearly demonstrates the NFIB’s exceptional partnership working.
“We are also in the process of producing an additional leaflet which will contain helpful contact details for serviced office staff and help them to share intelligence and information in quick time with law enforcement, ensuring action can be taken to disrupt criminal networks before they take hold.”
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