Fraud Prevention for Business 101: Spotting It Before It Costs You
UK payment fraud cost 1.28 billion pounds in 2025, and the fastest growing type persuades people rather than beating technology. This practical, jargon-free course teaches every employee to recognise fraud red flags, verify a suspicious request properly, and respond the right way. As at September 2026. Four short units.
- Easy-to-follow course
- 4 quizzes at 80% in every course
- Narration and captions on every screen
- Written and fact-checked in 2026
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One licence for your LMS, 12 months, for the learners you buy for, delivered as one SCORM package. Priced per learner, with volume discounts.
What your team will learn
Upon course completion, employees will gain a full and clear understanding of:
- What business fraud is, how big the problem has become, and why the risk is shifting toward manipulating people rather than systems
- How to recognise the red flags of invoice and mandate fraud, executive impersonation, procurement fraud and internal fraud
- How to apply the Stop, Challenge, Protect framework and verify a suspicious request out of band, on a channel already trusted
- How to report suspected fraud through the correct current channel, both inside the organisation and to the authorities
- The habits and culture that make a workplace genuinely resistant to fraud
- How to build a practical, personal checklist for spotting fraud before it costs anything
Who it is for
Written for all staff. No technical background is needed, and nothing in it assumes a previous course.
This course from Blocknorth gives every employee the practical skills to spot fraud before it costs the business anything: recognising the red flags of invoice and mandate fraud, executive impersonation and AI-enabled deepfake fraud, verifying a suspicious request properly, and responding the right way. You will learn the current UK reporting channels and the habits that make a whole workplace genuinely fraud aware.
Course contents
4 units. Each ends with a 10-question quiz; 8 correct unlocks the next unit.
Understanding Fraud Risk Today
- What business fraud actually is, and how it differs from an honest mistake
- The current scale of the problem, and the shift toward AI-enabled social engineering
- Who commits fraud, and the classic pattern (pressure, opportunity, rationalisation) behind why people do it
- The three manipulation levers, urgency, authority and secrecy, that run through almost every fraud type
Recognising the Red Flags
- Invoice and mandate fraud, and the specific signs that give it away
- Executive impersonation ("CEO fraud"), and why urgency and authority are the whole method
- A real, documented case study of AI-enabled deepfake fraud, and the lesson it teaches
- Procurement fraud and internal or expense fraud, and their own specific warning signs
How to Respond and Verify
- The Take Five to Stop Fraud framework: Stop, Challenge, Protect
- The golden rule of verification: checking a request out of band, on a channel already trusted
- What to do if fraud is happening right now, and the correct current channels for reporting it
- Why documenting a suspicious contact matters, and overcoming the hesitation to report
Building a Fraud-Aware Workplace
- Vigilance without paranoia, the second-check habit and segregation of duties
- A genuine speak-up culture, and countering the bystander effect
- Two worked scenarios applying the whole course to a real request
- Building a personal red-flag checklist and action plan
Details
| Length | About 1.5 hours, self-paced, resumes where the learner left off |
|---|---|
| Format | SCORM 1.2 package. Runs in any conformant LMS (Moodle, Cornerstone, Docebo, SAP SuccessFactors, TalentLMS and others) |
| Assessment | 4 unit quizzes, 10 questions each, 80% to pass. Score and completion reported to your LMS |
| Accessibility | Optional narration and captions on every screen, keyboard navigation, responsive on PC and tablet |
| Language | UK English |
| Publisher | Blocknorth |
| Written and fact-checked | In 2026, reviewed each quarter |
What a licence includes
One licence for your LMS, 12 months, for the learners you buy for, delivered as one SCORM package. Priced per learner, with volume discounts.
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Will it run in our LMS?
Yes, if your LMS supports SCORM 1.2, which almost every LMS does. You upload one zip file, assign it, and completions and scores report back automatically. We confirm compatibility for your platform before you buy, and the free sample package lets you test it in place.
Can we try it before we buy?
Yes. Ask for the free sample package and you will have Unit 1 of a foundation course as a real SCORM 1.2 file, so you can check it runs in your own LMS. Request it with the form below and you will have it within 1 working day.
What do we receive?
The SCORM package, a one-page quick-start for your LMS administrator, the course listing sheet for your catalogue, and preview images. Updates to the course during your licence are supplied at no charge.
How does a licence work?
You licence the course for the learners you buy for, for 12 months, on your own LMS, and you receive one SCORM package. Pricing is per learner with volume discounts as your numbers grow, and we licence from ten learners upwards.
Where teams go next
Request a quote or the sample package
Tell us the course and roughly how many learners. You will have a quote, or your sample package, within 1 working day.
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