What’s in a Name? How to Reconcile Linguistic Differences in Identity Matching

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What’s in a Name? How to Reconcile Linguistic Differences in Identity Matching

For most people, your name is one of the purest, and easiest, summations of your identity. For those in the business of screening identity data against compliance intelligence information, a name may be the best tool you have to track and prosecute fraudsters around the globe. However, things begin to get complex when you consider the sheer multitude of countries and organizations developing sanction lists using their language’s translations of names.

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How to Spot Liars and Achieve Balanced Interviews

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How to Spot Liars and Achieve Balanced Interviews

Your key interview subject walks in, removes his coat and takes his seat. You offer him a cup of coffee and begin building some rapport. You immediately begin watching his hands, face and posture. You scrutinize his sentences and ask yourself, “Is this person lying to me? How can I tell?” Your observations and analysis might make or break your case.

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Placing Volkswagen Into the Fraud Triangle

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Placing Volkswagen Into the Fraud Triangle

Steve Morang, CFE, CIA, CRMA, Senior Manager at Frank Rimerman & Co LLP, began his session today at the ACFE Global Fraud Conference asking attendees to raise their hands if they believed the Volkswagen executives didn’t know anything about the fraudulent emissions tests built into more than 11 million of their diesel cars. Only one person raised his hand. 

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Heard in the Halls: The Must-Attend Event of the Year

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Heard in the Halls: The Must-Attend Event of the Year

"I'm deeply involved in the data analytics aspect of our internal audit function, so coming here I'm learning ways I can develop our data analytics program from an audit perspective and a fraud perspective. Ways we can best utilize what we already know, how we can best train others on how to go out into the field and apply a lot of these techniques. I've learned a lot so far; there's a great depth of knowledge and it's just been awesome." — Joseph Gause, Lead Auditor, GM Financial

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Overcoming the Auditor Stigma

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Overcoming the Auditor Stigma

According to the ACFE’s 2016 Report to the Nations, the No. 1 way fraud is detected is through tips. However, the most prevalent anti-fraud control put in place by companies is external audits. About 80 percent of survey respondents cited external audits as an anti-fraud control while only 54 percent cited tips as a control. According to Tiffany Couch, CFE, CPA, CFF, Principal of Acuity Forensics, these statistics tell auditors an important story. 

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The Softer Side of Fraud Examinations

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The Softer Side of Fraud Examinations

Imagine you are a small business owner. You started the company from the ground up and now it’s operating like a well-oiled machine. You have a large staff of individuals you trust completely. They’ve been in the trenches with you and have been a huge part of your success. So you become a little relaxed with your management style — you don’t believe they need a firm hand anymore.

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