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Fraud Awareness Week 2025

Fraud Awareness Week is an annual campaign led by the Counter Fraud Centre of the Serious Fraud Office, focused on raising awareness and strengthening the public sector’s resilience to fraud.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of International Fraud Awareness Week (FAW25), held in New Zealand from 17–21 November 2025. The week continues to grow as a global movement promoting education, collaboration and action against fraud.

This year’s theme, Fraud prevention is a team effort – don’t sit on the sidelines, highlights the importance of working together and shared responsibility, recognising that everyone plays a role in preventing fraud.

Webinar series
Internal communications
Quiz
Visual resources
Counter fraud guidance
Counter Fraud Centre

Fraud Awareness Week 2025 webinar series

Learn from experts and hear real-world insights. Three webinars will be held across the week, jointly hosted by the New Zealand’s Serious Fraud Office and Australia’s Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre.

Don’t sit on the sidelines: Banking on fraud prevention

12pm, Monday 17 November 2025

Kick off FAW25 with a powerful opening session that sets the tone for the week ahead. We will launch the week with a joint Australia–New Zealand webinar, featuring leading voices from the banking sector and an opening address by the Minister of Police, Hon Mark Mitchell.

This panel session with representatives from ANZ, Westpac and TSB will explore how banks are tackling fraud through collaboration, culture and cross-functional teamwork.

Working as a team: Building stronger fraud defences through cross-functional collaboration

3pm, Wednesday 19 November 2025

Fraud prevention works best when silos are broken down. This session highlights inspiring case studies from leading practitioners who have successfully aligned teams across their organisations to fight fraud together. Presenters from Australia and New Zealand will share firsthand experiences and practical lessons on how cross-functional cooperation can strengthen fraud defences and build a more resilient organisation.

Please note that only registrations using government email addresses will be accepted for this event.

  • Registration link coming soon

Cracking a $2.3 million COVID-19 fraud case

12pm, Friday 21 November 2025

How does someone attempt to steal over $2.3 million using fake companies and forged documents?

This session takes you behind the scenes of the Hun Min Im investigation and prosecution, to reveal the risks inherent in emergency funding, the lengths someone would go to defraud multiple agencies, and how those agencies collaborated to uncover and investigate the fraud.

Real case. Real impact. Real lessons.

 

Fraud Awareness Week 2025 internal communications

We have drafted content for agencies to use in their internal communications leading up to and during FAW25. This messaging can be tailored to your organisation and includes information about events, calls to action and links to a wide range of counter fraud resources. 

 

Fraud Awareness Week 2025 quiz

Do a short quiz with your workmates during FAW25 to test your team’s fraud awareness and find out who’s the Most Valuable Player. The quiz will open on Monday 17 November so check back in then, before morning tea. 

 

Fraud Awareness Week 2025 visual resources

There is a range of visual resources available for anyone to use for FAW25. Upload your organisation’s logo to the posters, and mention @SFO or tag #FAW25 in your socials so we can see how everything looks!

 

Counter fraud guidance

The Counter Fraud Centre offers a range of guidance on topics from fraudster personas to effective counter fraud messaging. Use these resources to help build an effective counter fraud and anti-corruption culture in your organisation and maintain public confidence in the integrity of New Zealand’s public sector. 

Start the conversation

Share real-world examples

Think like a fraudster

Trust is not a control

Brush up your knowledge

Identify the weak points

 

Counter Fraud Centre

The Counter Fraud Centre Tauārai Hara Tāware is the prevention arm of the Serious Fraud Office. We offer free services and support to public sector organisations to help build capability and resilience and reduce the impact of fraud and corruption.

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Join us

If you would like to join our local or central government Community of Practice to build counter fraud capability in your public sector organisation, we are keen to hear from you. We meet regularly to discuss counter fraud initiatives in our agencies and hear what others are doing across the sector.

Thanks for getting involved in Fraud Awareness Week 2025 – fraud prevention is a team effort!

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