Fraud Museum Game: Seattle’s Worst Fraudsters

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Fraud Museum Game: Seattle’s Worst Fraudsters

Each year at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ (ACFE) Annual Global Fraud Conference, attendees get to explore some of the biggest frauds of the past — and a chance to win an Amazon gift card — with our Fraud Museum exhibit and trivia game. This year, 34th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference attendees get to examine some of the biggest scandals and schemes to go down in our host city of Seattle. The city might be renowned all over the world for its coffee culture, butit also has earned a reputation for vice and corruption through much of its early history. 

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The Subject Today Is Death: Digging into Digital Legacies

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The Subject Today Is Death: Digging into Digital Legacies

How do you conduct a digital investigation when your subject is dead? This was the central question of the 33rd Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference session, “Death, Data and Digital Legacies,” presented by Derek Ellington, CFE, senior consultant of Ellington Digital Forensics, LLC.

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Passwords Are Not Enough: Biometrics for Better Account Protection

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Passwords Are Not Enough: Biometrics for Better Account Protection

Samantha Weeks, CFE, kicked off her session at the 33rd Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference with a stark warning to fraud fighters. “If you have not already been greatly impacted by account takeover fraud in your organization, you should be very concerned that you haven’t seen it yet. because it is happening,” said Weeks, the fraud project manager for financial technology company Chime.

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Fraud Museum Game: Country Music Hall of Shame

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Fraud Museum Game: Country Music Hall of Shame

Past ACFE Global Fraud Conference Fraud Museum giveaways featured artifacts, memorabilia, documents and other pieces of fraud history collected by ACFE founder and Chairman Dr. Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA. But this year we’re doing something a little different and featuring some of the most infamous frauds in country music to honor our host city, Nashville, home of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

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