Fraud and Scams Targeting Charities

A practical course for charity finance teams, fundraisers, senior leaders, trustees and anyone who can make, approve or request payments. Learn how criminals target charities – payment diversion, CEO and trustee impersonation, deepfakes, invoice fraud, grant fraud, refund scams, fake fundraising and insider fraud – and the simple controls, verification rules and reporting steps that stop them.

Who this course is for: Charity finance staff, treasurers, fundraisers, grants teams, office managers, executive assistants, senior leaders and trustees. No technical knowledge needed.

Self-paced online learning. Earn a Certificate of Completion on passing.

What you will learn

• Recognise the main frauds and scams that target charities, their donors and their beneficiaries
• Apply verification rules that defeat payment diversion and impersonation, including deepfakes
• Put proportionate financial controls in place for payments, bank detail changes, grants and refunds
• Understand legal context including APP fraud reimbursement and the failure to prevent fraud offence
• Respond quickly to fraud, recover funds where possible and report to the right bodies

Course modules

• How charities are defrauded
• Stopping payment diversion and impersonation
• Fraud in fundraising, grants and the organisation
• Responding to fraud