In the past few years, Congress, the press and commentators have debated the wisdom of passing more federal criminal laws to deal with financial crime. However, lost in this debate is the fact that ...

Much has been written on digital fraud in recent months, but many industry players choose to remain in the dark. The problem is “invisible” -- why open a can of worms (or bots in this case) when you ...

There is no way to guarantee that an organization will not experience financial reporting fraud. But research shows that fraud-resistant organizations share three traits: That’s according to The Fraud ...

Fraud has quietly become the defining crime of modern life. Every day, thousands wake up to discover their savings gone, ...

Sure, concerns are rising about clickfraud — but do we even know how to define what a fraudulent click is? ClickZ gets Google and Overture to provide their own definitions in Google and Overture ...

Fraud doesn’t mean what it used to. A string of high-profile federal prosecutions are falling apart as courts apply a newly narrowed legal definition of the crime. The latest case came this week in ...

Identity fraud prevention efforts have become more sophisticated in recent years, and so have the fraudsters. Much of the fraud doesn't even have a consumer victim. In what is known as "synthetic" or ...

Q. The Bettendorf Crime Watch report in Thursday's paper uses the term "fraud" a lot. Please define the term in the context that it is used. -- Michael, Bettendorf A. Bettendorf Police Chief Phil ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Technology helps stem the tide of bad spending practices, but there are weaknesses and gaps in agencies' use of it, experts say. Technology may help agencies stem the tide of waste, fraud and abuse, ...