Failure to Prevent" laws are not new and nor is the concept behind them. But they are increasingly important for Financial Crime Risk and Compliance Officers and Internal Auditors.

To explain the concepts in the "Failure to Prevent" series of Financial Crime Fora, Nigel Morris-Cotterill will present a one-hour talk on Tuesday 25th April, 2023.

In the film, The Transporter, there are several rules for using the courier service Jason Statham offers. One is "Don't open the package."

In this utterly ridiculous spam-scam, someone using a gmail address that Google should be required to verify rights to but chooses not to, is pretending to be a courier - and to know what's in the package. The silly thing is that even if he was a courier and even if he did open the package he would not know the information upon which the fraud is predicated.

As spam-scams go, this is one of the most rubbish.

The National Crime Agency in the UK is at the leading edge of online child abuse and convictions are increasingly frequent. Usually, cases involve international investigations and the negotiating of relationships with multiple overseas agencies. But sometimes the case is entirely domestic, in more senses than one. And then prosecutions can be quick, as a man and his cohabitee who formed a team of abusers found out yesterday.