Fraud prevention is one of the most important areas of operation for an organization that has a heavy volume of cash dealings as a part of its business. If there is no robust fraud detection and prevention strategy in place, the organization will be exposed to severe cash crises at regular intervals and this may ultimately lead to a permanent closure or shut down. Fraud needs not necessarily happen within the organizations books of accounts. There are many avenues open through which regular fraud can take place. Accepting money or favors from competitors, vendors or customers with intent to do injustice to the organization or make it vulnerable to operational hazards is also a crime.
Apart from the auditors, there are many other agencies that can detect fraudulent activities…
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January 7th, 2012 | Posted in Avoid Fraud | No Comments
One of the main victims of fraud happens to be banks. When it comes to fraud the bank can be put at risk by the employees or even by customers. The main objective of bank oriented frauds is to get more money from the bank without having to draw it from ones account and not having to repay the cash.
The bank may have some measures to control some of the fraudulent activities performed by its customers, but the employees may easily bypass the security checkpoints and proceed towards stealing from the bank. Most of the reported cases of fraud that involve the bank usually have one or more senior administrators of the bank involved.
Bank frauds are numerous and fall under a number of categories in the classification of…
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Visa is perhaps the most important document for many travelers. Though diplomatic ties allow certain nationals to enjoy visa-free entry to other nations, this is always not the case in the bigger picture. Many people are spending huge sums of money just to be able to acquire a visa to travel. It is a common knowledge that a chunk of people, especially desperate travellers, end up being scammed by visa racketeers. It may interest you to know that this is usually possible due to the ignorance of travelers.
Therefore, your ability to spot a visa fraud deal would save you time and money. And the good news is that some of the best known ideas for detecting such fraud are organized in this document for your reading pleasure…
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January 7th, 2012 | Posted in Avoid Fraud | No Comments
One of the uprising forms of fraud goes by the name of non-investment fraud. These fraud cases are usually common in online service provision. The fraud is generally described with terms such as swindling. This type of fraud is quite common and usually targets individuals who have no luck or are looking for ways to solve a given problem. The non investment frauds are usually a one way traffic type of fraud. The victim who is the buyer is usually the one at the receiving or losing end, the investor (fraudster) has the winning end. It is a deal that usually has a pretty good advantage for the fraudster.
The intensity of the non-investment frauds is determined by the lengths that the victim is willing to go to get a…
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January 7th, 2012 | Posted in Avoid Fraud | No Comments
One may have heard of a number of ways in which fraud is committed and how it hits the books of accounts of a company, at times seriously affecting the profit. But in some of the most well planned frauds, it has been seen that the books of accounts are left untouched and unscathed. This happens when there is a nexus between the supplier or the debtor and the related department employees. It is easy to show preference to a specific supplier by favoring him with priority orders at prices that are different from those which are quoted by other suppliers. This is one way of usurping the price difference, conveniently putting other suppliers virtually out of the supply and logistics chain.
Pretty much the same is the case…
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January 6th, 2012 | Posted in Avoid Fraud | No Comments
Frauds have become quite common in recent years. There are different forms of frauds extending to different and sometimes unexpected fields. One of the common and uprising fraud cases is the online dating fraud. The fraud may be a simple distortion of the truth causing minor monetary damages, while in other cases it might cause major financial and emotional losses.
When it comes to the online dating frauds, the target audience normally includes individuals who are interested in socializing via the internet. There are different variations to the online frauds although most of them are rather basic. The fraud must be conducted online, though in some cases a physical meeting might be arranged.
The process of the fraud involves the fraudster creating a false account or accounts on a given dating…
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