October 30, 2018

Embattled Whistleblower Fights For Better Protections

October 30, 2018/ Emily Primeaux

In 1992, Joanna Gualtieri joined the Foreign Affairs department of the government as a realty strategist and was quickly sent to Tokyo. While there, she learned that Canada's main diplomatic compound was valued at more than $2 billion. She also discovered that taxpayers were paying $350,000 a year to rent accommodations for a trade official in Tokyo while a government-owned mansion worth $18 million sat empty for more than three years.

October 29, 2018

Canada's Auditor General Suggests Revisiting Fundamentals for Fraud Prevention

October 29, 2018/ Emily Primeaux

“The work done to detect, prevent, audit and investigate fraud is very important,” said Michael Ferguson, CPA, CA, FCA (New Brunswick), Auditor General of Canada at the sold-out 2018 ACFE Fraud Conference Canada. “There are many opportunities for people of your skillset to prevent criminals from siphoning off money from others.”

October 29, 2018

Data-Driven Investigation Leads to Second Ongoing Offense

October 29, 2018/ Emily Primeaux

In 2015, a complaint was received from an ophthalmologist concerning inconsistent refund amounts that had begun appearing in her financial system. The ophthalmologist explained that under the new Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) rules, her office charges $75 for an adult eye exam. If an ocular-related disease is discovered, then OHIP will cover the exam and the $75 charge is refunded.

October 05, 2018

Unexpected Sources: A Friend of Journalists and Fraud Examiners Alike

October 05, 2018/ Sarah Hofmann

Fraud examiners might not always think of themselves as journalists, but there might be more overlap than you think. Both professions conduct interviews, they investigate documents, they write up their findings and, if they’re lucky, they can find unexpected breaks in cases or stories thanks to whistleblowers or unexpected sources. In her remarks to attendees at the 2018 ACFE Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific, veteran reporter Kate McClymont stressed the importance of those that come forward to blow the whistle.

October 03, 2018

5 Tips for Navigating the Digital Crime Scene

October 03, 2018/ Courtney Howell

“As fraud investigators, CFEs, financial crime investigators, you have got a big responsibility,” Dr. Graeme Edwards, CFE, AAICD, Director of CYBERi Pty Ltd, told attendees at the 2018 Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific. He was referring to the fraud examiner’s responsibility to know the right procedures to document and preserve evidence so that it is permissible in court, specifically when dealing with volatile digital evidence. In his session, “Navigating the Digital Crime Scene,” Dr. Edwards provided applicable, real-life advice on how a digital crime scene should be processed and worked.

September 27, 2018

The Most Compromised Element in the Chain of a Cyber Scenario is You

September 27, 2018/ Mandy Moody

What is the top risk facing the cybersecurity of our organizations, agencies and governments? Hackers from Russia? North Korea? China? Nope. It’s you and me. “It’s really easy to read humans and also really easy to manipulate humans,” said Ian Yip, CTO at McAfee Asia-Pacific. “No matter what you hear from me in terms of all the technology and the hacking and the Dark Web, it is still the human that is usually the most compromised element in the chain of a cyber scenario. It’s the human that we are most worried about.”

August 30, 2018

NAB Whistleblower Says Australian Banking Industry Has “A Long Way to Go” in Promoting Ethical Behavior

August 30, 2018/ Sarah Hofmann

Dennis Gentilin, NAB whistleblower, author of The Origins of Ethical Failures: Lessons for Leaders and Founding Director of Human Systems Advisory will be joined by Kate McClymont, an investigative journalist, among others to address hundreds of anti-fraud professionals in Sydney this autumn at the 2018 ACFE Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific. The conference will be held 23-25 September at the Sheraton on the Park.

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