'Forced' back to work with no childcare

Money Box

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4.2 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

During the health pandemic a fraud epidemic has been growing. The latest official crime survey found fraud accounts for a third of all crime in England and Wales. It costs the UK economy tens of billions of pounds and very often individuals many thousands of pounds. But the cost is much more than just financial. It can be emotionally and mentally devastating. Money Box has been given access to a rare recording of fraud in progress. An expert assesses what made it so believable and one of the most senior fraud investigators in the UK tells us what he's doing about this kind of financial crime.

Also on the programme, the car finance customers stuck with a vehicle they cannot use and no longer own but they still have to tax and insure it.

As government advice changes and people are asked to go back to work, many childcare providers remain closed. So do employers need to make any allowances?

And in the podcast, will house prices go up or fall - a listener asks should he buy now or wait?

Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Researcher: Lizzy McNeil Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: Emma Rippon

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0:00.0	In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.
0:08.0	But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA
0:12.0	was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.
0:18.0	Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? When lies are still being told to this day,
0:24.0	who do you believe? I wouldn't even know where to start and I'm with the IRA.
0:28.5	Steakknife. Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. Hello, I'm Lewis, and in this Moneybox podcast, one car finance company is leaving some of its customers with their cars but unable to drive them.
0:46.8	The parents who are being told to return to work as the COVID summer begins, but are employers allowing for the lack of holiday childcare.
0:54.9	And will house prices go up or fall?
0:57.9	A listener asks, should he buy now or wait?
1:00.8	And you know, we get an answer.
1:03.6	But we start with fraud.
1:05.5	As all eyes are on the health pandemic, a fraud epidemic is quietly growing.
1:13.0	Moneybox has been given access to a rare recording of a crime in progress, a successful attempt to steal money as it happened. Our reporter
1:19.9	Dan Whitworth is here with the details, Dan. Well, the clips were about to play Paul were recorded
1:24.2	by a BBC colleague of ours called Alice. Now, she's a radio producer
1:27.7	and was recording the call because she genuinely believed she was on the phone to her bank
1:32.6	and recording it was just easier than taking notes. In this call, Alice was tricked into believing
1:38.2	two fake direct debits had been illegally set up on her account. Sorry, I'm just trying to think, because I'm currently in quarantine,
1:47.2	so I can't actually go out and get money out.
1:53.5	God.
1:55.7	I mean, I have a credit card, which I'm currently can't remember. I mean, it's fine. Just block it
2:07.2	completely and I'll use my credit card. Okay. Now, we'll make sure we can block that for you
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