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Synthetic Identity Fraud Is Not Just an Auto Finance Problem
June 11, 2026
Synthetic identity fraud is getting more attention in auto finance right now, and for good reason. A recent Snell & Wilmer article called it one of the most costly and difficult-to-detect threats in auto lending, especially because fraudsters can combine real and fake personal information to create an entirely new “person” who does not actually
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Accounting Fraud Risk Is Still on the Radar. Here’s How Businesses Can Protect Themselves.
June 9, 2026
Accounting fraud does not usually start with someone in a dark room plotting a major scheme. More often, it starts with pressure. Pressure to hit revenue goals. Pressure to make the numbers look cleaner for investors. Pressure to keep lenders happy. Pressure to hide a mistake that “we’ll fix next quarter.” That is why the
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How Does a Business Miss $5,000 Fraudulent Payments? One Transaction at a Time.
June 4, 2026
A recent fraud case out of Norfolk, Virginia is the kind of story that makes every business owner stop and ask, “How in the world did nobody notice?” According to federal prosecutors, a romance scam allegedly drained more than $1.2 million from a City of Norfolk corporate bank account through hundreds of unauthorized transactions between
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How businesses can prevent deepfake-driven fraud
June 2, 2026
1. Stop treating documents and screenshots as evidence A screenshot of a wire confirmation? Not enough.A PDF invoice? Not enough.A photo of an ID? Not enough.A Zoom call with the “CEO”? Also not enough. AI can now fake the artifacts. So businesses need to verify through systems of record, not the document itself. For example:
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The Case of the Tampered Financials: How Business Owners Can Spot the Clues
May 28, 2026
Fraud rarely walks in wearing a trench coat and holding a smoking gun. Most of the time, it shows up as a “miscellaneous expense.”A missing receipt.A credit card charge that does not quite make sense.A financial report that looks clean, but feels wrong. That is what makes financial fraud so dangerous. It does not always
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When a Trusted Executive Steals Millions: What Businesses Can Learn from the Michael Collins Embezzlement Case
May 26, 2026
A company can have a strong product, smart leadership, and impressive revenue, and still be financially vulnerable if one trusted person has too much control. That is the hard lesson behind the Manhattan District Attorney’s announcement that Michael Collins, a former marketing executive, pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $6 million from two employers between March
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“I follow the money, interpret the evidence, and explain it in plain language. That’s how fraud gets found and trust gets rebuilt.”
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