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Study: Financial Pressure Makes CFOs Prone To Fraud

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A recent academic study found that company CFOs are less likely to admit to fraud when they’re facing pressure to meet certain financial goals, according to Forbes. The study was done by researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Chieti-Pescara in Italy.

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Why The Data Breach Decline Is Bad News For Businesses

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At the same time, as this week's B2B Data Digest reveals, fraud can come from many sources, not only outside of the enterprise. From commercial card misuse to invoice fraud, internal employees can be the bad actors, too. 727,000 was defrauded from a Missouri trucking company in an employee expense scam , reports in FreightWaves said.

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Taking A Customer-Centric Approach To Fighting Fraud

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This means FIs must be able to ferret out and defend against an ever-more complex array of attacks, and they deploy advanced fraud detection strategies and designate additional resources to keep themselves and their customers safe. Staying ahead of fraud requires constant innovation. Red Flag Behaviors.

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BEC Attacks Surge As Fraudsters Eye Pandemic Opportunity

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Wirecard continues to dominate the headlines in the realm of corporate fraud thanks to $2 billion missing from the company’s books, but it’s not the only company at the center of questionable activity. 34 percent of furloughed employees were asked to commit furlough fraud , according to a survey from U.K.-based

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BEC Run Out Of Detention Center Nets Millions

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Mobile means one can do just about anything by using their device: order food, bank online, read the news … even commit payments fraud, sometimes from the unlikeliest of places. In Australia, news came that police have charged a quartet of alleged fraudsters with running a business email compromise (BEC) scam.

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Accounting Expertise In C-Suite Can Compromise Financial Reports

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” report, accounting professors Anne Albrecht of Texas Christian University, Elaine Mauldin of the University of Missouri and Nathan J. Instead, the findings suggested that this “accounting competence interacts with other fraud risk elements to increase the risk of material misstatement.”

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Health Care Companies Data At Risk Of Being Compromised

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John Huff, director of the Missouri Department of Insurance, said in a statement in the report that information on 411,786 members of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City was potentially taken.