New research has revealed that Sussex Police have received over 9-thousand individual fraud reports over the past 13 months.
The analysis, carried out by QR Code Generator QRFY, looked at data from Action Fraud and the Office for National Statistics to uncover how many reports each police force had in England and Wales.
The most common category of fraud recorded by Sussex Police was ‘Online Shopping and Auction’ fraud, which refers to the non-delivery of products bought by a consumer or misrepresenting a product.