The Global Impact of Fraud and Financial Crime

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Alex Winter, author, writer and director of documentary films including “The Panama Papers” and “Deep Web,” discusses the cost of fraud and its impacts with ACFE CEO John Warren, J.D., CFE, at the 37th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference.

Building Public Trust Through Better Governance

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H.E. Dato’ Seri Wan Suraya Wan Mohd Radzi shares the importance of collaboration paired with modernization and digitalization to future-proof anti-fraud and audit practices, both domestically and internationally in a changing landscape, at the 37th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference.

Leveraging Science and Research to Interview Victims Effectively

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Leveraging Science and Research to Interview Victims Effectively

Bret Hood, CFE, spent much of his career as an FBI special agent and supervisory special agent conducting interviews for fraud investigations. Now, he shares his experience and teaches interviewing skills to fraud investigators. According to Hood, the curriculum for interview skills largely focuses on how to interview subjects and ultimately obtain a confession, but not much focus is given to interviewing victims. He shifted that focus with his session at the 37th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference. 

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Lessons in Digital Evidence Collection from the Karen Read Trial

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Lessons in Digital Evidence Collection from the Karen Read Trial

Digital forensics specialist Derek Ellington, CFE, used the high-profile Massachusetts case involving Karen Read as a training exercise during the 37th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference. He examined evidence handling practices, chain-of-custody procedures and digital forensic challenges in modern investigations. Part one of his session focused on how investigative decisions can affect the reliability of evidence presented in court.

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Turning OSINT Into Smarter Asset Recovery

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Turning OSINT Into Smarter Asset Recovery

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed how fraud examiners gather information, but it has also changed how fraudsters operate. During her session on open-source intelligence (OSINT) and asset recovery at the 37th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, Cynthia Hetherington, CFE, founder and CEO of Hetherington Group, asked attendees to rethink how they approach investigations in an era where information is abundant and digital footprints and online activity can reveal emerging risk before fraud occurs.

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