Record revealed
Hoax letter signed by ‘Jack the Ripper’
This is one of hundreds of letters in police files claiming to have been written by the infamous Whitechapel Murderer – otherwise known as 'Jack the Ripper'.
Series
Action Fraud Website
Catalogue reference: LO 7
What's it about?
LO 7
This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Action Fraud website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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LO 7
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Title (The name of the record)
- Action Fraud Website
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Date (When the record was created)
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From 2010
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Action Fraud website.
[Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel links, please see the Arrangement field)]:
Action Fraud (http://www.actionfraud.org.uk/).
Action Fraud (http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Please see information at Divisional level.
This series contains more than one link to the ‘snapshots’ of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation’s presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Attorney General, 1461-1461
- Home Office, 1782-1782
- National Fraud Authority, 2008-2014
- National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, 2010-2010
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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archived website(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Gathered from original website.
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Official publications
- Crime
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Future website versions may be anticipated.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Action Fraud is the UK's national fraud reporting centre Action Fraud, for fraud and financially-motivated cyber crime.
It was initially was run by the National Fraud Authority (NFA), the government agency that helped to co-ordinate the fight against fraud in the UK. The NFA was an executive agency of the Attorney General's Office. Other partners were: the City of London Police, the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), and the Home Office.
In April 2011, the NFA became an executive agency of the Home Office.
In December 2013 it was announced that the NFA would be closed on 31 March 2014 and on that date Action Fraud was transferred to the City of London Police. The service is run by the City of London Police working alongside the NFIB who are responsible for assessment of the reports. The NFIB was developed and is overseen by the City of London Police as part of its role as a national lead for economic crime investigation, and is funded by the Home Office.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18744/
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