Mason Wilder, CFE, ACFE Research Specialist, breaks down a recent business email compromise (BEC) scam that left a Catholic parish $1.8 million poorer, and discusses how you can protect your organization from future cyber attacks.

Just like your fingerprint, a map of your voice can be used as a piece of unique, hard-to-duplicate biometric data. In this episode of Fraud Talk, Simon Marchand, CFE, Chief Fraud Prevention Officer at Nuance Communications, shares the latest developments in voice biometrics and why he thinks this could be a game-changer for fraud prevention and detection.

Each of the 2,690 real cases of occupational fraud reported in the ACFE’s 2018 Report to the Nations has a unique story behind it. Dive deeper by reading these case studies from the investigating CFEs.

An accountant with 20 years’ tenure bleeds a nonprofit dry.

A banker’s fraud scheme is caught when he takes a day off.

A part-time caregiver defrauds an elderly owner of a working farm.

A charismatic fraudster drains a physicians’ practice for more than 20 years.

A bank client comes to regret their close relationship with a bank officer.

John Gill, J.D., CFE, ACFE VP of Education, speaks with Lisa Lawler, founder of the White-Collar Wives Project. Lawler discusses how her husband’s fraud affected her and her family, and how it led to her creating a place for wives to turn for advice and support.

In this episode of Fraud Talk, Emily Wilson, CFE, Vice President of Research at Terbium Labs and upcoming keynote speaker at the 30th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, discusses the dark web and what fraud examiners should know about this mysterious, misunderstood part of the internet.