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“I had to have a reason personally to have that extra money,” Nathan Mueller, convicted fraudster*, told attendees at the 26th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference. “I started the gambling, I had never gambled before, to cover up the fraud, and then I started stealing to gamble. So that’s why it went on so long. That’s why it increased from that first $1,100 check to, there was a day when I took $400,000 in one day.”
Read MoreIn 1988, shortly after James Holzrichter, a young analyst and systems auditor, began discovering questionable practices at defense contractor Northrop, he received a disturbing phone call from Richard Zott, a federal agent with the U.S. Department of Defense Criminal Investigative Service.
Read MoreCarolyn W. Colvin, acting commissioner for the Social Security Administration, told attendees during the Tuesday morning General Session that the agency's message to those that 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."
Read MoreThick skin and confidence. Those are just two of the skills the first-ever women’s panel offered female anti-fraud professionals during yesterday’s session at the ACFE Global Fraud Conference. Cynthia Cooper, CFE, CEO of Cooper Group, moderated a panel of five women representing public, private, government and corporate worlds.
Read More"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.
Read MoreGeoff Gentry, regional director for ISE, delivered "Hackers, Attack Anatomy, and Security Trends," an informative session on how to improve security systems. "When you lack systems with checks and balances, then disaster happens," warned Gentry. "You have to operate on the premise that the bad guys are already in your network."
Read MoreLesley 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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