• January/February 2021 | Vol. 36 | No. 1

Featured Articles

  • Remote but engaged: Conducting investigations from afar

    How do fraud examiners conduct fraud examinations when they often can’t meet their team members and subjects in person? These experts — during pandemic constraints — discuss their biggest investigation hurdles, maintaining professional skepticism, best practices, eDiscovery challenges, chain of custody, interviewing constraints and more.

    Developing the entire fraud picture

    CFEs should consider all aspects of a fraud case when calculating the impact of fraud. Here are three primary calculations when reporting the amount of fraud impact: Total exposure, fraud amount and known loss.

    5 most scandalous fraud cases of 2020

    We were all glad to discard our 2020 calendars. Fraudsters took advantage of COVID-19 conditions, but not all of them needed an pandemic to pull off some big frauds. We've distilled a long list of cases to give you a few shockers.

    Keys to the kingdom: oilfield fraud

    Jerry thought he had it made in the shade. As he began his company maintaining oil rigs and equipment, he'd found ways – the keys to the kingdom – to fraudulently bill his former employer as a contractor. He knew how to thoroughly exploit the system he'd helped devise. Learn lessons from this fictionalized version of an actual $2 million fraud case.

    A pillar of anti-fraud education says farewell

    From its early days as The White Paper to the 72-page bimonthly publication it is now, Fraud Magazine’s continued credibility and necessity to the anti-fraud profession is in part thanks to the leadership of its editor-in-chief, Dick Carozza. After 25 years at the helm, Carozza is stepping back and retiring. Here we take a look at the history of Fraud Magazine and the large role Carozza played in its success.

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