Analyze this and that. FraudBasics: Critical Analytic Techniques
As fraudsters become more proficient, CFEs must be able to use equally sophisticated fraud examination skills. Here's how you can stay on top of your game with criminal analytic techniques.

Capturing computer screens and crooks: Ctrl Print Screen: an effective tool
Learn how to use the Print Screen function on your personal computer keyboard to save evidence and prepare it for court presentation.

Financial fraud red flags: Searching for the funnel clouds
Fraud examiners, when looking backwards to the early stages of an investigation, report common patterns. Like tornado watches, these signals don't indicate the funnel clouds were sighted but that they might develop because of optimal conditions.

Protecting the public interest: Fraud in the government, Lessons learned while building an investigative procurement fraud detection program
It’s a fraud that affects both the public and private sector — procurement fraud. It’s also a fraud that is difficult to detect. In this session, you’ll learn how to build a proactive investigative procurement fraud detection program and how to avoid making some mistakes that could be costly and program counter-productive. Also discussed will be procurement fraud risk analysis, financial system data-mining, and the need for procurement fraud referrals.

Global Composite Model: A Plan to Detect and Prevent Fraud Worldwide
Entities throughout the world are devising models to detect and prevent fraud in the workplace. This CFE from the United Kingdom constructs a composite from three countries that can be adapted to any public or private entity.

How to Screen Job Applicants to Avoid Potential Employee Fraud
Conduct background checks for any potential employee who will have constant access to cash, checks, credit card numbers or any other items that are easily stolen.

Fraud's Finer Points: Skimming revenue, part three: Stealing cash payments from customers
In the past two columns, we've discussed many methods fraud perpetrators use to steal checks from the organization and then convert them for personal benefit. Employees perpetrate these skimming frauds by removing funds from the organization prior to recording accountability for the transactions in the accounting system. Here we'll discuss some of the methods employees use to skim funds by stealing customer payments made in cash.

The Whole, Not the Parts
Outcome-oriented fraud auditing - looking at a situation as a whole rather than its individual parts - will help you think like a fraudster and find deeply embedded crimes.

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