Live coverage from the ACFE Global Fraud Conference, including anti-fraud articles, session highlights, video clips and photo gallery.
Learning from past mistakes is part of growing as an investigator. When it comes to interviewing, it is important that fraud examiners don’t hold themselves back for fear of asking the wrong questions or making other miscues. Too much restraint could leave questions unasked, and stones unturned, to the detriment of the investigation.
Read More“You don’t need a dazzling personality to be interesting. You just need to be authentic. In fact, dazzling can get in the way,” said Paul Homoly, CSP, in his Wednesday morning session, “Just Because You’re an Expert Doesn’t Make You Interesting.” Homoly is president of Homoly Communications Institute.
Read More“Stacy Keach. I enjoyed earing about his interaction with the show and how it taught him so much about fraud.” — Jessica Storey, Oklahoma Baptist University, ACFE Conference scholarship winner
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As narrator of CNBC’s “American Greed,” actor Stacy Keach said that his show “has … given me an insight into the machinations of the lengths that people will go to, what they are willing to risk, in order to make easy money — more and more money." With the aid of clips from the TV show, Keach described the crimes of extravagant fraudsters.
Read More“I spent my entire life in the company of criminals,” said Chris Mathers, the Tuesday morning General Session speaker. “Two things I learned: People do not steal your money to save it. And … people typically do not resort to criminality late in life. It’s not like taking up golf. It’s something you do from the very beginning.
Read MoreCynthia Navarro began her Tuesday afternoon session with the preface, “This is going to be work-related and personal. You will be able to use these tools in every part of your life.” She was referring to her session detailing how anti-fraud professionals can use information found on the Internet to find out more than you ever wanted to know about a person in question.
Read More“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” So said Abraham Lincoln – in a quote shared by Ed Stolle, CFE, CPA, CGFM, during his session “Forensic Interviewing: Techniques to Detect Deception for Auditors, Examiners and Investigators.”
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