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High-net-worth clients can be high-risk clients

Know-your-customer policies should apply equally to all banking clients. However, ultra-wealthy clients sometimes escape proper scrutiny. Here, the author describes why banks might fail to conduct due diligence on ultra-high-net-worth clients and the high-stakes pitfalls of underestimating their risks. 

Written By: Brett Erickson, CFE, CGSS, WMCP

    • Anti-Fraud Laws Regulations and Compliance
    • Financial Institution Fraud
    • Money Laundering

U.S. seeks to ban Huione Group for money laundering and more

U.S. seeks to ban Huione Group for money laundering. Credit Suisse confesses to tax fraud. UHG investigated for alleged Medicare fraud. Texas doctor who falsely diagnosed patients gets prison sentence.

Written By: Crystal Zuzek

    • Financial Institution Fraud
    • Fraud Schemes
    • Health Care Fraud

The data detective

The trove of leaked files from the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers exposed the secret offshore financial dealings of the global elite. Digging through those terabytes of data were hundreds of reporters led by Marina Walker Guevara. The Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist talks to Fraud Magazine about managing news media collaborations, data investigations and the urgency for stories that hold the powerful to account.  

Written By: Jennifer Liebman, CFE

    • Anti-Fraud Laws Regulations and Compliance
    • Bribery and Corruption
    • Computers and Technology

The evolution of PAN enumeration attacks: Tackling a growing threat to payment security

By exploiting automated processes, fraudsters can bypass payment security measures at a faster, subtler rate. The authors explain how payment-processing companies can increase their defenses and better protect their customers against this growing threat to their security.

Written By: Dustin J. Eaton, CFE, Marcus Vinson

    • Cyberfraud
    • Fraud Prevention and Deterrence
    • Fraud Schemes

Blaze the trail with the latest anti-fraud techniques and tools at the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference

Thousands of fraud fighters will gather in-person in Nashville, Tennessee, and virtually at this year’s ACFE Global Fraud Conference in June to learn from leaders in the anti-fraud field and hear from world-class keynote speakers.  

Written By: Crystal Zuzek

    • Career and Professional Development
    • Fraud Investigation and Examination

Two new members join the 2025–2026 ACFE Board of Regents

Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE) elected two new members to the 2025–2026 ACFE Board of Regents.

Written By: Anna Brahce

    • Career and Professional Development

Under pressure

Generations that grew up with the internet aren’t immune to online fraud schemes. Trust in online platforms, heavy involvement in social media and financial pressures facing Gen Z and millennials put them at greater risk of being victimized by fraudsters than older adults. Fraud Magazine explores how younger generations become victims — and perpetrators — and what fraud examiners can do to educate them about fraud.

Written By: Crystal Zuzek, Anna Brahce

    • Consumer Fraud and Scams
    • Cyberfraud
    • Fraud Schemes

Detecting fraud without historical data

Datasets of documented fraud cases can be instrumental in detecting anomalies and patterns in all sorts of transactions, but many times those datasets aren’t available. With fraudsters perpetrating increasingly sophisticated schemes, fraud fighters need an edge on the criminals with advanced techniques. Here, the author describes how to use machine-learning models and other advanced techniques to detect fraud when you don’t have historical data to learn from.

Written By: Penny Li, CFE, CPA, Ning Ping Wang

    • Computers and Technology
    • Data Analytics
    • Fraud Investigation and Examination

Transience and transformation in the digital age

In 1995, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) hired a young editor named Dick Carozza, CFE, to turn a newsletter into a magazine. It’s three decades later, and Fraud Magazine is set for another transformation. This is our last printed issue as we tackle a new assignment: delivering the latest fraud prevention and detection content in a digital-only format. 

Written By: John D. Gill, J.D., CFE

    • Fraud Prevention and Deterrence

SEC, FBI, DOJ join forces to bust crypto fraudsters and more

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), FBI and U.S. Department of Justice coordinated a large-scale takedown of fraudulent cryptocurrency firms involved in market manipulation.

Written By: Crystal Zuzek

    • Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets
    • Fraud Schemes
    • Money Laundering

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