Live coverage from the ACFE Global Fraud Conference, including anti-fraud articles, session highlights, video clips and photo gallery.
What if there was a way to narrow down a small subset of fraudsters who have access to millions, sometimes billions, of dollars? Michael Greelis and Michael Pocalyko, co-presenters at this year’s ACFE Global Fraud Conference, believe they may have found a key indicator that could help save organizations from devastating losses.
Read More“Practically all of the companies and governmental entities represented in this room are potential targets of interest to us,” Peter Warmka, CFE, CPP, director of business intelligence at Strategic Risk Management LLC, told the room full of conference attendees in his Monday-morning session. “We consider ourselves masters in social engineering. We can manipulate you.” Warmka was impersonating the mindset of a fraudster on the hunt for a vulnerable target, and the effect was enough to grab the attention of the audience.
Read MoreWhy do people comply or not comply? For Audrey Milesi, CFE, ACCA, ACAMS, Founder of Flying CFO, this question is at the heart of proving intent in fraud cases. “Proving the facts doesn’t mean you have proved the intent,” said Milesi to attendees of the 2018 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe, recently held in Frankfurt. “It’s not just about going to court and having a good case. It’s about [determining] what fraud is for you.”
Read More“In the good old days when I started my career, my life was much easier,” said Issam Zaghloul, CISSP, CISA, CGEIT, Head of Information Security at Majid Al Futtaim Holding. He has been working in the cybersecurity field in one way or another for the last 16 years. The work was easier, he explained, because there wasn’t as much data to track, and it was all stored in centralized locations. In other words, things were simpler and much more straightforward.
Today, however, we eat data for breakfast, according to Zaghloul, and our systems of tracking, moving and storing data have become infinitely more complex.
Read MoreThey are impossible to solve. They are too time consuming. The documents don’t exist. Tiffany Couch, CFE, CPA/CFF, Principal Acuity Forensics, reviewed these three myths surrounding cash skimming schemes to start off her breakout session at the 28th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference.
She shared four case studies to dispel these myths and illustrate a few ideas on how to effectively investigate and prove cash skimming schemes. We’ll take a deeper look at one of them, which she dubbed the “Busy Mom” scheme.
Read MoreAndrew Price and Lisa Chafin’s breakout session, “Building the Perfect Investigations Team to Find, Eliminate and Remediate Misconduct” kicked off with a two-minute therapy session. Price requested that those in the room turn to their neighbor and share a few pain points they’ve encountered when working on an investigative team. As the room grew louder and as voices grew more animated, Price commented, “It sounds like we’ve got a lot of pain in this room.”
After hearing some of the points — unclear objectives, misaligned priorities, personal conflict — Price and Chafin outlined five key elements of an effective cross-functional investigations team.
Read More“The message is quite clear — the world is changing, and with that change there is an expectation from a wide range of stakeholders,” said Laura Davies in her session on corporate ethical frameworks at the 2017 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe. “There has been a big breakdown of trust between business and the general public.”
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