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Financial Crime Analysis

Fraud Investigations

What is fraud?  What is financial crime?  Tackling this subject and the investigation of same, opens up a very broad topic.  Invariably, whatever our chosen terms for these illicit activities, when we are talking about them we are talking about property crimes.  But beyond that, there are a surprising variety of definitions for both. For […]

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Financial Crime Analysis

Fake Identities – Real Losses

What is it? Synthetic Identity Fraud (SIF).  Simply put, it is the combination of real facts about someone with fake information, often an amalgamation of other sources to create a new identity for purposes of fraud.  It is common, growing, and very effective with few consequences for the perpetrator. Who Is Doing It? Crime rings.  […]