Adam Graycar Director This Trends and Issues paper seeks to distil from a diverse range of sources, the most effective strategies and programs which have been devised throughout the world in recent years to prevent criminal fraud perpetrated against both individuals and organisations. Eight areas are examined: fraud awareness and education; management of fraud control; personnel monitoring; tra...

As online commerce becomes more common, fraud is an increasingly important concern. Current anti-fraud techniques include blacklists, hand-crafted rules, and review of individual transactions by human experts. These methods have achieved good results, but a significant number of costly fraudulent transactions still occur, and the fraud detection process is expensive due to its heavy reliance on...

We examine how a firm’s incentive to commit fraud when going public varies with investor beliefs about industry business conditions. Fraud propensity increases with the level of investor beliefs about industry prospects but decreases in the presence of extremely high beliefs. Evidence suggests that two mechanisms are at work: monitoring by investors, and short-term executive compensation, both ...

The European iWebCare project (FP6-2004-IST-4-028055) aims at designing and developing a flexible fraud detection web services platform, which will be able to serve e-government processes of fraud detection and prevention, in order to ensure quality and accuracy and minimize loss of health care funds. This paper discusses the approach this project adopts and which involves the introduction of a...

With an upsurge in financial accounting fraud in the current economic scenario experienced, financial accounting fraud detection (FAFD) has become an emerging topic of great importance for academic, research and industries. The failure of internal auditing system of the organization in identifying the accounting frauds has lead to use of specialized procedures to detect financial accounting fra...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether financial fraud is associated with poor health sleeping problems and poor quality of life. METHODS Pilot study (n=188) conducted in 2015-2016 in Madrid and León (Spain) by recruiting subjects affected by two types of fraud (preferred shares and foreign currency mortgages) using venue-based sampling. Information on the monetary value of each case of fraud; the date...

ISSN 0817-8542 ISBN 0 642 24210 0 In its broadest terms, fraud means obtaining something of value by deception. If fraud were described as an industry, it would clearly be one of the growth areas in the economy. It is also one of the least understood areas of the economy and, because fraud is often viewed as a victimless crime (when perpetrated against large organisations), it does not draw com...

The purpose of this paper is to advance theoretical understanding of the important role of both power and negotiation during online deception. By so doing, the paper provides insight into the relationship between perpetrator and victim in Internet fraud. The growing prevalence of Internet Fraud continues to be a burden to both society and individuals. In an attempt to better understand Internet...

P2P lending directly connects borrowers and lenders without a financial institution as the intermediary. This new form of crowdfunding brings lenders more investment opportunities, but also poses unprecedented risks of default and fraud. This research-in-progress paper focuses on a specific type of fraud, loan request fraud, which may be unique to lenders on Chinese P2P lending sites due to the...

In this paper we give evidence that it is possible to characterize and detect those potential users of false invoices in a given year, depending on the information in their tax payment, their historical performance and characteristics, using different types of data mining techniques. First, clustering algorithms like SOM and neural gas are used to identify groups of similar behaviour in the uni...