Everybody can recall some kind of fraud that has been all over the news. If it were Enron, WorldCom, Lernout & Hauspie, Ahold, Société Générale or another case does not matter. Fact is that fraud has become a serious part of our life and hence a serious cost to our economy. Several studies on this phenomenon report shocking numbers: forty-three percent of companies worldwide have fallen victim ...

The majority of the United States health care fraud has been focused on the major public program, Medicare. The yearly financial loss from Medicare fraud has been estimated at about $54 billion. The purpose of this research study was to explore the current state of Medicare fraud in the United States, identify current policies and laws that foster Medicare fraud, and determine the financial imp...

Data mining technology is applied to fraud detection to establish the fraud detection model, describe the process of creating the fraud detection model, then establish data model with ID3 decision tree, and establish example of fraud detection model by using this model. As e-commerce sales continue to grow, the associated online fraud remains an attractive source of revenue for fraudsters. Thes...

Title of dissertation: Securities Fraud: An Economic Analysis Yue Wang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Lemma Senbet, Professor Nagpurnanand Prabhala Department of Finance This thesis develops an economic analysis of securities fraud. The thesis consists of a theory essay and an empirical essay. In the theory essay, I analyze a firm’s propensity to commit securiti...

Fraud detection is one of the ways to cope with damages associated with fraudulent activities that have become common due to the rapid development of the Internet and electronic business. There is a need to propose methods to detect fraud accurately and fast. To achieve to accuracy, fraud detection methods need to consider both kind of features, features based on user level and features based o...

Fraud is increasing dramatically with the expansion of modern technology and the global superhighways of communication, resulting in the loss of billions of dollars worldwide each year. Although prevention technologies are the best way of reducing fraud, fraudsters are adaptive and, given time, will usually find ways to circumvent such measures. Methodologies for the detection of fraud are esse...

The study summarized here examined the fraud-control apparatus currently used within the health care industry, and assessed the assumptions, policies, and systems that constitute the industry's current approaches to fraud control. The objective was to develop a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches. Since 1992, with Health Care Reform under debate, the issu...

Fraud and security continue to be problems for firms. Fraud information is typically incomplete and deliberately obfuscated. These qualities make fraud events harder to detect using conventional security controls. This study uses a knowledge management framework to explore how different types of controls are used to detect and investigate information fraud. The analysis is based on the customer...

Fraud presents an immense problem for health insurance companies and the only way to fight fraud, is by using specialized fraud management systems. Current research community has focused great efforts on different fraud detection techniques, while neglecting other also important activities of fraud management. We propose a holistic approach that focuses on all 6 activities of fraud management, ...