Untraceable Links: Technology Tricks Used by Crooks to Cover Their Tracks

Untraceable Links: Technology Tricks Used by Crooks to Cover Their Tracks

"I think we need a change in investigations. We need an evolution because of technology," said Walt Manning, CFE, president of Investigations MD in his session, "Untraceable Links: Technology Tricks Used by Crooks to Cover Their Tracks," at the 26th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference. "We have to change the way we think about technology because it's not working anymore," he continued.

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Lesley Stahl: Algorithms, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Dark Side Taking Hold?

Lesley Stahl: Algorithms, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Dark Side Taking Hold?

Lesley Stahl, famed "60 Minutes" investigative journalist, was in Silicon Valley recently where tech companies, she says, are actually in the business of “disrupting.” “They are searching for ways to upend existing sectors of the economy. ‘Creative destruction’ they call it,” Stahl says. Economist Joseph Schumpeter coined the term in the middle of the last century. “He said it was an essential engine of economic progress and central to capitalism. New technologies would destroy old businesses and new jobs would be created. The automobile put 238,000 blacksmiths out of business. It created even more workers in Detroit making cars. 

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5 Seconds to Truth: How to Use the New Body Language to Detect Deception

5 Seconds to Truth: How to Use the New Body Language to Detect Deception

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. 

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Heard in the Halls: Conference Favorites

Heard in the Halls: Conference Favorites

"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

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