Fraud: A case study

Abstract

The Public Trust Office (a government body which handles £2 billion of private assets including trusts and executorships, money paid into Court, and the property and affairs of people under mental disability) recently prevented three major fraudulent attempts to obtain over £600,000 and suffered several smaller attempts, one of which succeeded. This article describes the events. It compares the Office's experience with theoretical best practice and what other organizations facing similar problems have done.