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At the 2024 ACFE Women’s Summit, Linda Miller, the founder and CEO of the Audient Group, emphasized that, “Leadership is a state of mind, not necessarily a title. I don’t want people to say, ‘Well I am not technically a leader’, because everyone can behave as a leader every single day, no matter where you are in your career.”
Read MoreYou have probably heard the term “human trafficking”, but you may not have thought it had a connection to business, finance or fraud. According to Matt Friedman, it does. Friedman, who has had a 30-plus year career in countertrafficking, shared his insights and experience at the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific.
Read MoreSocial engineering scams are on the rise in Australia, defrauding victims out of millions of dollars through manipulation tactics, according to Ruben Naiker, CFE. Naiker, who has more than two decades of experience as a forensic investigator, led a detailed presentation of social engineering cases in Australia during the 2023 ACFE Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific and detailed the variety of methods scammers are using to defraud sensitive information and money from unwitting targets.
Read MoreBrian Lazarte and James Lee Hernandez are storytellers by trade. But these filmmakers, directors and producers of the HBO docuseries “McMillion$” and the Apple TV+ docuseries “The Big Conn” align their styles closely with that of a fraud examiner. In front of a packed crowd at the 34th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, the Emmy-nominated pair discussed their process of “investigating an investigation,” conducting effective interviews with both criminals and their victims, and truly understanding the long-term impacts of fraud.
Read MoreThe 34th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference took place June 11-16, 2023, in Seattle, Washington. More than 5,500 fraud fighters attended, either in person or virtually, representing a range of industries, job functions and countries around the world.
With more and more fraudsters working in the shadows of the crypto world, investigators of all kinds must become familiar with these new and evolving technologies. A panel of four experts helped unpack these mysteries at the 34th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference in a session entitled “Cryptocurrency Tracing and Investigations: Real-World Successes and Challenges.”
Indeed, chasing scammers in the borderless world of cyberspace presents its own unique challenges. Not only are the legal parameters of this ever-changing technology still fuzzy and global in nature, but simply gathering the necessary evidence can prove tricky.
Read MoreOn a daily basis, NICE Actimize, an anti-fraud and anti-money laundering company and one of the sponsors of the 34th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, monitors five billion transactions and protects more than $6 trillion. NICE Actimize Global Head Fraud Market Strategy and Prevention – SME, Rob Rendell, CFE, used these statistics to break down scam trends he and his company have been seeing in the conference session, “Scams Playbook: Detect, Deter, and Prevent, Sponsored by NICE Actimize.”
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