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The Fraud Center

Data

The numbers we hold

Every figure on this page is a count of records in our own archive — warnings we have ingested, decisions we have logged, stories we have published. Nothing here is modelled or estimated, and none of it describes the scale of fraud in the UK as a whole.

At a glance

547
Warning List entries held

Firms in our archive

6%
Recorded as clone firms

34 of 547

8
Ombudsman decisions logged

With the finding summarised

19
Reports published

Each with a named editor

Counted Tuesday 3 November 2026.

Charts

Warning List entries added, by month

How many firms first appeared in our copy of the FCA Warning List each month.

  1. 0Dec 25
  2. 0Jan 26
  3. 3Feb 26
  4. 1Mar 26
  5. 4Apr 26
  6. 1May 26
  7. 2Jun 26
  8. 5Jul 26
  9. 55Aug 26
  10. 257Sep 26
  11. 198Oct 26
  12. 4Nov 26

Dec 25: 0 entries. Jan 26: 0 entries. Feb 26: 3 entries. Mar 26: 1 entries. Apr 26: 4 entries. May 26: 1 entries. Jun 26: 2 entries. Jul 26: 5 entries. Aug 26: 55 entries. Sep 26: 257 entries. Oct 26: 198 entries. Nov 26: 4 entries

Counted from our own ingestion log. A quiet month means fewer additions reached our feed, not that fewer scams ran.

How many warned firms copy an authorised one

Clone firms use the name or details of a genuine, authorised business.

547
  • Clone of an authorised firm34(6%)
  • Not recorded as a clone513(94%)

Based on how the entry itself is recorded. Firms not marked as clones may still imitate a real business.

Contact details recorded against warned firms

Which channels a warned firm was seen using. One firm can appear in more than one row.

  • Website recorded404(36%)

    Website recorded: 404 entries

  • Phone recorded227(20%)

    Phone recorded: 227 entries

  • Email recorded444(39%)

    Email recorded: 444 entries

  • No contact details held61(5%)

    No contact details held: 61 entries

Counted from the contact details published with each entry.

New listings versus updates

Whether an entry was first published or amended after publication.

  • First listed497(91%)

    First listed: 497 entries

  • Listing updated50(9%)

    Listing updated: 50 entries

Counted from the change type recorded on each entry.

Ombudsman decisions we have logged, by outcome

Only decisions summarised in our archive — not the Financial Ombudsman Service's full caseload.

  • Upheld5(63%)

    Upheld: 5 decisions

  • Partly_upheld2(25%)

    Partly_upheld: 2 decisions

  • Not_upheld1(13%)

    Not_upheld: 1 decisions

Each decision links to the published source on its own page.

The words warned firm names lean on

Most frequent words in the names of firms on our Warning List archive.

  • live21(21%)

    live: 21 firm names

  • clone16(16%)

    clone: 16 firm names

  • capital14(14%)

    capital: 14 firm names

  • trade12(12%)

    trade: 12 firm names

  • registered11(11%)

    registered: 11 firm names

  • firm11(11%)

    firm: 11 firm names

  • global8(8%)

    global: 8 firm names

  • finance8(8%)

    finance: 8 firm names

A word appearing here is not itself a warning sign — plenty of legitimate firms use the same vocabulary.

How to read these numbers

  • They count our records, not the world. A rise in entries can mean more listings were published, not that more fraud happened.
  • Nothing is estimated. If we do not hold it, it is not on this page — there are no projections or modelled figures anywhere on this site.
  • Every underlying record is public. Open the warnings archive or the ombudsman decisions and check any of it yourself.
  • Being listed is not proof of a crime. A Warning List entry means the regulator says the firm may be operating without authorisation.