Investigation

Character traits of the effective fraud examiner

Fraud examination is often challenging work, which involves various investigative skills. Be more successful in your engagements by focusing on these four traits that are shared by effective fraud examiners.

Norman DeBoer, CFE

The ACFE presented Norman DeBoer, CFE, the Certified Fraud Examiner of the Year award at the 30th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference in June. DeBoer, a detective with the Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) Regional Police Service for 29 years, completed in 2018 the precedent-setting $12 million financial advisor fraud case of Daniel P. Reeve, who received a 14-year prison sentence.

Investigating the Millennial Mind

Create your luck to fight fraud

Fraud examiners often stumble upon unsought information. Here’s how to train yourself to find that info so you can detect other potential frauds, obtain evidence, recover fraud-related losses, identify and correct deficiencies, and more.

Evaluating startups for fraud

The startup world contains ample pressure, opportunity and willingness of entrepreneurs to rationalize decisions to secure market share and deliver on the promises they made to investors. Rarely do the teams that conduct due diligence for VCs and PE firms include someone with experience in detecting and investigating fraud.

Cybersecurity and Fraud Risk Management for Small Businesses: Tools for a Growing Global Economy

The synthetic ID you can't see

Criminals are using a new form of fraud called credit privacy numbers (CPN) to defraud financial institutions and game credit bureaus. Fraud examiners will have to pool their resources and use investigative skills to connect the dots between credit bureaus and banks, and find new ways to combat this plague.

Elder Financial Exploitation: A Primer for CFEs (Webinar Archive)

Did ‘psychic’ Maria Duval make a deal with the devil?

Burgeoning fraud against consumers is affecting millions. Two young investigative journalists at CNN recently reported an immense global mail fraud scheme targeting senior citizens.

Unified truth seekers expose fraud and corruption

The initial exchange of the Panama Papers began at Bastian Obermayer’s parents’ home in Germany. His wife and kids were sick with stomach bugs, and he was graciously cleaning up one mess after another. In his words, it was a “really bad day.” He couldn’t know that one strange email would change his life, his newspaper and investigative journalism forever. The subject line read, “Interested in data?”