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Every fraud investigation starts the same way. “It must have happened somewhere else.” Customers swear they only used their card at your business. Your register works fine. Deposits look normal. Nothing appears broken. That is exactly why credit card skimming works. Skimming is not loud. It does not crash systems. It quietly steals data while … Read more

FBI Warning: Account Takeover Fraud Is Rising. Are You Sure You’re Talking to Your Bank? At Detect-a-Fraud, we see the same pattern again and again. Smart business owners.Trusted employees.Established banks. And yet the money still disappears. The FBI recently issued a warning about a surge in account takeover fraud, where criminals impersonate financial institutions and … Read more

Most businesses believe vendor fraud would be obvious. A fake company. Massive dollar amounts. A trail of red flags waving wildly in the air. That is not how it usually happens. In a recent federal case, a Florida man was sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzlement and fraud after submitting false invoices and … Read more

The Rise of AI Voice Fraud and Why “It Sounded Like You” Is No Defense Picture this. Your bookkeeper gets a call. It’s your voice. Same tone. Same urgency. Same phrases you always use. “I need you to wire this today. I’m in a meeting and can’t text. This is time-sensitive.” The money is sent.And … Read more

When an employee pulls off fraudulent ACH payments, it shakes a business to its core. You trust someone with your financial engine, and suddenly that trust is weaponized. But here’s the part most business owners overlook: ACH fraud usually isn’t about a criminal mastermind. It’s about weak systems that make fraud easy. If one person … Read more

Every nonprofit loves to say, “We trust our people.”And that’s great. Trust matters. Mission matters. Community impact matters. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: none of that stops fraud.In fact, it often creates the perfect conditions for it. Take the recent Minneapolis case. A well-known chamber CEO pleaded guilty after diverting organizational funds and having a … Read more

If you’ve ever handed over the financial keys of your business and thought, “I hope they’re doing the right thing,” you’re not alone. Most owners want to trust their CFO or top finance person. And honestly, trust is healthy… until it turns into blind trust. That’s exactly how companies end up on the wrong side … Read more

Every year businesses gear up for the holiday rush. More sales. More transactions. More moving parts. And unfortunately, more opportunities for fraudsters to slip through the cracks. Card networks are sounding the alarm on a fresh batch of schemes hitting retailers during the busiest shopping season of the year. If you run a business, this … Read more

Every year, right when the cranberry sauce hits the table, something else quietly spikes inside a lot of businesses: overtime. Some of it is completely legitimate. Holiday rush. Staff taking vacation. Year-end work piling up. All normal. But hiding inside that pile of perfectly reasonable extra hours?A few creative entries that deserve a closer look. … Read more

Every fraud case has a villain. Sometimes they’re outside the building. But the cases that drain businesses the fastest usually come from someone already inside the walls. Someone trusted. Someone who knows exactly where your blind spots are. That’s what makes the Qualcomm case so fascinating. A high-ranking executive quietly built a side company, hid … Read more