Lesley Stahl, Keynote Speaker
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Famed “60 Minutes” co-editor Lesley Stahl says she seldom tells others about stories she’s working on, but she made an exception for the attendees at the Tuesday working lunch General Session.
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5 Seconds to Truth: How to Use the New Body Language to Detect Deception
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Janine Driver, CEO of The Body Language Institute and the self-proclaimed “Lyin’ Tamer,” began her full session today at the 26th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference by analyzing the body language of two unknowing audience members. She quickly summed up the way one man was sitting with his arm on the chair next to him by saying that he was confident. “When we are confident, we choose to take up more space,” Driver said.
Read MoreKrebs Says Organizations Spend Money on Cybersecurity Weaponry but not Enough on Soldiers
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Brian Krebs says companies fight cybercrime with too many tanks and not enough tank drivers. “Organizations spend ridiculous amounts of money on cybersecurity weaponry and then drop like two guys or gals on the ground to man all this weaponry that they have,” he says.
Read MoreHeard in the Halls: Conference Favorites
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"The session I'm looking forward to is the one on the criminal. It's interesting understanding why they did what they did, the thought process they went through and why they thought they might be able to get away with it. And even if they got caught, why wasn't the consequence enough to keep them from engaging in the act in the first place?" — Stacy Brown-Johnson, CFE, Director, Kikivarakis & Co., Nassau, Bahamas
Read MoreThe War Against Herbalife: Pyramid Scheme or Multi-level Marketing Master?
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On Dec. 19, 2012, activist investor William Ackman publicly confirmed that he was “betting” against the stock of Herbalife because “the company operates like a pyramid scheme.” Ackman claimed in a 334-slide, three-hour presentation, “Herbalife is a pyramid scheme because, among other reasons, distributors earn more than 10 times as much from recruitment as they do by selling the company’s overpriced products to bona fide retail customers.”
Read MoreIt’s a Performance, Not a Conversation: Capitalizing on Media Attention
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Fraud examiners are frequently asked to conduct interviews, pilfer through written and online data, and sometimes give expert testimony. They are rarely asked to give a short media performance. Although a performance is exactly what anti-fraud professionals need to do when working with the media, according to Katherine McLane, founding partner of The Mach 1 Group in Austin, Texas. “A good interview is never a conversation; it is a performance,” McLane said. “It takes time and skill and training to master the art.”
Read MoreSSA Acting Commissioner: Fraudsters Beware
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“Our message to those who attempt to defraud Social Security is plain: We will find you, we will prosecute you, we will seek the maximum punishment under the law, and we will fight to restore the money you have stolen from the American people,” says the acting commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), Carolyn W. Colvin, during the Tuesday morning General Session.
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