Fraud Prevention for HR & People Teams
Fraudulent candidates now use AI-generated CVs and deepfake interviews to get hired, while payroll faces diverted payments and ghost employees. This practical, jargon free course gives HR and people teams a clear view of these risks, a simple framework for handling them, and where to escalate and report. Four short units, general awareness only.
- 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:
- Why HR sits at two of a business's most exploitable fraud surfaces, hiring and payroll
- How to recognise a fraudulent candidate, including AI-generated CVs, stolen identities and deepfake interviews
- The Stop, Challenge, Protect framework, and how to apply it to a hiring or payroll moment
- How payroll diversion and ghost employees work, and how to verify a bank detail change independently
- How to apply consistent onboarding checks: right to work, references and identity verification
- How to recognise expense fraud and support a policy that is applied consistently
- Where to escalate a concern internally, and how to report fraud externally
Who it is for
Written for hr. No technical background is needed, and nothing in it assumes a previous course.
This course from Blocknorth gives HR and people teams a clear, practical understanding of the fraud risks concentrated at hiring and payroll, and how to recognise and respond to them. No technical or legal background is needed: you will learn to spot fraudulent candidates, protect payroll and onboarding, and apply a simple framework to any suspicious request.
Course contents
4 units. Each ends with a 10-question quiz; 8 correct unlocks the next unit.
Fraud Awareness Foundations for HR
- Why HR sits at fraud's frontline, at hiring and at payroll
- The current scale of UK payment fraud, and the shift toward AI-enabled social engineering
- The Stop, Challenge, Protect framework, and applying it to a hiring or payroll moment
- Recognition versus investigation, and why the response is always to escalate
Recruitment Fraud and Fake Candidates
- Fraudulent CVs, stolen identities and a well-documented recruitment-fraud campaign
- How impostors have targeted remote technical roles, and sometimes used a hired stand-in for interviews
- Deepfake video interviews, and the tells worth noticing
- Red flags beyond the video call, and why a rushed hire is a warning sign
Payroll Fraud and Onboarding Integrity
- Payroll diversion and ghost employees, and why payroll is a concentrated target
- The HR-to-payroll handoff, and verifying a bank detail change independently
- Right-to-work checks, reference checks and document verification at onboarding
- Applying Stop, Challenge, Protect to a payroll change, and escalating fast
Expense Fraud and a Fraud-Aware HR Culture
- What expense fraud looks like, and why policy beats trust alone
- Building a clear, consistently applied policy, backed by regular spot-checks
- Escalation routes, and reporting fraud through the current national channel
- Building a genuinely fraud-aware HR culture
Details
| Length | About 45 minutes, 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
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