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For Crimes and suspicious activity NOW phone 999
For other non-urgent contact and reporting a crime that has already happened phone 101
Emergency fraud hotline: dial 159 to be automatically connected to your bank’s fraud prevention service. If you receive a call or text asking you to transfer money, hang up and call 159
Alternatively you can report non-urgent incidents or suspicious activity and crimes online at
https://www.essex.police.uk/ and click on the appropriate button
Action Fraud is the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime where you should report fraud if you have been scammed, defrauded or experienced cyber-crime in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Call 0300 123 2040 or:
If you have been defrauded i.e. lost money phone or report online at
https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/reporting-fraud-and-cyber-crime
If someone has tried to defraud you but you have not lost money, phone or report online at
https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report-phishing
CRIMESTOPPERS IN ESSEX
Crimestoppers is an independent charity which takes information about crime anonymously, online
or by phone. We don’t take names or any identification, just listen to what you know and pass it on securely, 100% anonymously. There’s no police contact, no witness statements, no courts. Information is taken in more than 150 languages.
Online forms at www.crimestoppers-uk.org and calls on 0800 555 111 are untraceable. Calls won’t
show on phone bills. We’re open 24/7, 365 days a year. Crimestoppers passed over 7,500 crime reports to Essex police last year. See how it works at https://youtu.be/TV5k3QFBI3U
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