When Congress authorized an additional $600 in monthly unemployment benefits as part of the CARES Act, out-of-work Americans weren’t the only ones it helped. Criminals have descended […]

With cyberthieves active during COVID-19, the Internal Revenue Service and its Security Summit partners today urged tax professionals and other […]

Unlike some legitimate businesses, organized crime enterprises can be expected to weather the current COVID-19 crisis. In fact, with millions of Americans now working […]

(As posted to IRS.gov on 7/16/20)

Via IR-2020-160, the Internal Revenue Service today announced its annual […]

With COVID-19 still raging in much of the country, the opioid crisis may not be the top public health challenge on most Americans’ minds. […]

Skimming isn’t the biggest fraud threat for most businesses. The theft of cash receipts represents only 11% of asset appropriation schemes, according to the Association of Certified […]

New technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, increasingly are being applied to the old problem of occupational fraud. But in most circumstances, common […]

Family businesses make up the vast majority of companies in the United States and produce 62% of the country’s gross domestic product, according to […]

Machine learning increasingly is being used to discover fraud schemes. Smart software can find fraud. With this type of artificial intelligence (AI), the technology […]

The recently released 2020 Association of Certified Fraud Examiner’s (ACFE’s) occupational fraud study, Report to the Nations, reveals that the most common behavioral red flag exhibited by […]