Gary Robinson

The DCPCU is a national police unit formed in partnership between UK Finance, the City of London Police, Metropolitan Police and Home Office. Its fraud prevention experts will join Santander UK’s fraud team and Corporate & Commercial Banking executives on the webinar series to provide insights into the psychology behind fraud, employee vulnerability to fraud, how fraudsters take advantage of technology, and how businesses can help prevent fraud attacks on their company.

The webinar series comprises four online sessions as outlined below:

• Introduction and insight into fraud – 29 June (2pm-2.45pm). 
• Social engineering and impersonation fraud – 6 July (2pm-2.30pm).
• Fraud in the digital era – 13 July (2pm-2.30pm). 
• What Santander is doing to help protect customers – 20 July (2pm-2.30pm). 

Gary Robinson, detective chief inspector, DCPCU, said: “We are pleased to partner with Santander UK on this fraud awareness and prevention webinar series for businesses. Fraud, by quite a margin, is the largest crime type in the UK and one of the only crimes that does not show a fall in victimisation. This mixed with our dependence on technology and remote working, and life after lockdowns, means we need to adapt to a new benchmark for our security and our culture.”

Tim Hinton, head, corporate & commercial banking, Santander UK, added: “These webinars are the first crucial step in helping raise awareness in understanding what we can all do to help prevent fraud attacks, while highlighting how fraudsters target individuals through social engineering and impersonation fraud in the current digital era.”