Blog Archives: 2015

Wire fraud and other schemes – a different kettle of phish

Posted July 8th, 2015 & filed under Blog.

As I have chronicled many times, fraud is a dynamic and evolving issue for every business and industry. This Treasury & Risk.com article on mitigating risk from wire fraud serves as a nice vocabulary lesson on some of the innovative methods fraudsters are using to gain access to your system from the outside.

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Is Your Debit/Credit Card Safe?

Posted June 15th, 2015 & filed under Blog.

This week’s blog post is courtesy of CN alum John Steinhoff, who now serves as vice president of consulting at Ascendent Advisory Group.

One recent weekend,

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Tone at the Top Drives Fraud Prevention

Posted June 1st, 2015 & filed under Blog.

This is a great article from Entrepreneur.com that, in a roundabout way, focuses on tone at the top as a fraud prevention technique. I am a big believer that a strong and positive tone at the top can be a business’s most effective fraud prevention tool.

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Blast from the fraud past: the Minnie Mangum story

Posted May 18th, 2015 & filed under Blog.

I’ve never been accused of being a fashion expert, but I have always found it interesting that certain fashion fads are huge for a while, eventually fall out of favor to the point of being mocked,

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Anonymous Hotlines Are Not Just for Employee Reporting

Posted April 16th, 2015 & filed under Blog.

I recently read an article about a utilities provider in Bristol, Virginia, that is picking up the pieces and investigating the depth of an alleged fraud that officials believe spanned 8 years.

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