My son involved in fraud?

[hiimjackie]

Hello there

I don't have much experience with how these people work, but I had overheard a phone call recently (he forgot I was in bed in the next room with paper thin walls) and heard him talking about 'banging UC' and 'clicking', my experience goes far enough (and reading other mumsnet threads about it) to know that they're something to do with fraud.

I'm very concerned about this, does anyone have better experience in these terms, and how to act?

Anyone?

I'm not sure about the UC banging but I know that clicking is.

It's essentially a way of manipulating advertising to either drive up fees paid to the site hosting the ad or boost the company value of the ad by "showing" disproportionate interest in a product.

Typically some shady organisations "recruit" people to "click" on specific advertisements en mass and offer money for doing so.

So yes, it sounds dodgy. It's not actually illegal though.

However, it's more a worrying spiral of "quick money" and getting involved with disreputable organisations that recruit naive people to do this.

Once you're "in" then you're on their radar and it's easy to draw people in to more "profitable" (ie illegal) actions - which "UC banging" might well be.

@DeRigueurMortis The only thing I assume is UC is meaning Universal Credit, I'm worrying he's in a fraud gang who tries swindling benefits