Discussing the Current Anti-Fraud Landscape

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Discussing the Current Anti-Fraud Landscape

In the closing session of the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe, ACFE President and CEO Bruce Dorris led a discussion on the current fraud landscape, including considerations that fraud investigators and organizations alike should be mindful of when building effective anti-fraud controls.

Taking part in the panel session, sponsored by AuditBoard, was Marcin Nadolny, Head of EMEA Fraud, Fincrime and Data Science at SAS; Natina Thalien, CFE, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Arkema Group, author and public speaker; and Chrysti Ziegler, CFE, CIA, CRMA, Chief Audit Executive of CITGO Petroleum Corporation.

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Ayleen Charlotte: Breaking Down the Shame and Taboo of Fraud

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Ayleen Charlotte: Breaking Down the Shame and Taboo of Fraud

Ayleen Charlotte, fraud victim turned hero, started off her keynote address at the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe with the story that thrust her into the spotlight — a romantic tryst with a man she later learned was a convicted fraudster. Her romantic past — an emotional roller coaster and whirlwind romance, turned negative mental states, turned sweet revenge plot — was the subject of the 2022 Netflix documentary, “The Tinder Swindler,” watched by people across 200 countries around the world.

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Moving Toward a New Fraud Ecosystem

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Moving Toward a New Fraud Ecosystem

The fraud reporting system in the U.K. is broken, and there needs to be a fundamental change in the process of reporting cases, thus creating “one fraud ecosystem” that keeps victims a major priority. That’s the message Nick Downing, Director of Deloitte Forensic, was hoping to get across in the session titled “Resetting the Dial: Transforming the Fraud Reporting and Response Ecosystem, Sponsored by Deloitte” at the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe.

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The Era of Generative AI  

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The Era of Generative AI  

To echo the sentiments of Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs, Nina Schick’s session at the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe was “really, really scary and really, really cool.” Schick, author, entrepreneur and widely recognized as one of the first generative AI experts, enthralled her virtual audience during her discussion on the history, growth and outlook of the newest form of artificial intelligence, generative AI. A concept that is less than 10 years old, generative AI has completely moved beyond artificial intelligence as we’ve known it before — it can create data that assists in production of things we’ve historically only associated with human intelligence, such as text, music, images and video. 

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Dark Web Fraud Facilitation: Unmasking the Risks and Safeguards for Investigations

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Dark Web Fraud Facilitation: Unmasking the Risks and Safeguards for Investigations

The 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe featured a compelling session on "Dark Web Fraud Facilitation," presented by Costel Ion, CFE, regional head of Group Audit Investigations for Germany and EMEA Deutsche Bank. By attending this session, participants could expect to recognize fraud risks stemming from criminal activity on the dark web, identify negative impacts to their organizations and determine how best to monitor and control these risks to prevent and detect fraudulent activity. 

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Jamie Bartlett: In Search of The Missing Cryptoqueen

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Jamie Bartlett: In Search of The Missing Cryptoqueen

As an investigative journalist, Jamie Bartlett has a knack for spotting inconsistencies and strange behaviors. His published books include “The Dark Net” (2014) that details niche internet subcultures and online crime, “Radicals Chasing Utopia” (2017) about the motivations and growth of fringe political groups, and “The People Vs Tech” (2018), which won the 2019 Transmission Prize.

But when Bartlett began pursuing the mysterious disappearance of OneCoin founder Dr. Ruja Ignatova in November 2018, his next endeavor proved to require an even higher level of scrutiny as he began unraveling the truth behind a billion-dollar scam whose mastermind seemingly vanished into thin air.

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ABCs of Emotional Intelligence in Investigations 

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ABCs of Emotional Intelligence in Investigations 

The first day of the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe concluded with a session on emotional intelligence by Lloydette Bai-Marrow, a founding partner of Parametric Global Consulting, a former lawyer for the U.K. government and a visiting faculty member at the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Vienna.  Her goal for this session was to discuss recognizing how emotions can affect an investigation, how to employ emotional intelligence to manage investigations, and how to identify the four types of emotional intelligence and how they apply in investigations. 

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