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Once a poster child for Germany’s fintech sector, Wirecard — along with its ambitious CEO — was exposed as a massive fraud that seduced investors. Learn how to analyze the case by emphasizing four attributes.
Retired U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents Steve Murphy and Javier PeNa — the inspirations behind the hit show “Narcos” on Netflix — tell the tale of their time in Colombia, investigating and capturing notorious narcoterrorist and Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar. Not everything you see on TV is true, but their story comes pretty close.
January of this year now seems like a quaint time. Since then, the world has stretched in bizarre ways, and it probably won’t ever resume its previous shape. The Board of Regents want to encourage you as your organizations need your anti-fraud skills more than ever.
To illuminate the global pandemic’s impact on the fight against fraud, the ACFE is undertaking a series of benchmarking surveys exploring how fraud risks and anti-fraud programs are changing in the current environment. The September 2020 edition of the Fraud in the Wake of COVID-19: Benchmarking Report summarizes the results of the second of these surveys, which was conducted from late-July to mid-August 2020.
"When new people come in because there's change, it's sometimes harder to spot anomalous behaviors,” said WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson at the 31st Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference. “Of course spotting anomalous behaviors is how a lot of fraud detection works. You know the patterns of what we do, you look for things that don't quite fit those patterns and you identify that as fraud." View the video.
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