digital evidence

Following the Digital Trail: How Investigators Use Metadata, Logs, and Devices

An invoice looks perfect. The amounts match the purchase order, the vendor is approved, and the signature is right where it should be. Then an investigator opens the file properties and sees something odd: the “2023” invoice was created last Tuesday, on the laptop of the employee who approved it. That is the power of […]
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business email compromise
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Wire Fraud and Business Email Compromise: The Scam Hitting Companies Hardest

It is 4:45 on a Friday afternoon. Your accounts payable manager gets an email from a long-time supplier: their bank details have changed, and the overdue invoice needs to go out today. The logo is right. The tone sounds familiar. The thread even includes last month’s real correspondence. The wire goes out. On Monday, the […]
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deleted evidence

Deleted Doesn’t Mean Gone: How Digital Forensics Recovers Evidence Fraudsters Destroy

The controller knew the audit was coming. Over one long weekend, he deleted a folder of spreadsheets, cleared his browser history, wiped the text threads on his company phone, and emptied the recycle bin. On Monday, he walked in confident that the evidence was gone. It was not. Within days, examiners had rebuilt much of […]
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bribery vs extortion

Bribery vs. Kickbacks vs. Extortion: The White-Collar Crimes Business Owners Confuse

A vendor offers your purchasing manager a luxury “thank you” trip. A local inspector hints that your permit will stall unless someone “takes care of it.” A supplier quietly sends 5% of every invoice back to your project lead’s personal account. Three situations, three different crimes, and most business owners could not say which is […]
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internal controls to prevent theft

The Internal Controls That Actually Stop Theft (and the Ones That Don’t)

Most businesses that suffer employee theft had controls in place. They had a policy manual, an approval process, maybe even an annual audit. The problem was that those controls looked good on paper but never actually got in a thief’s way. The data backs this up. The ACFE’s Occupational Fraud 2026: A Report to the […]
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healthcare fraud schemes

Upcoding, Phantom Billing, and Kickbacks: How Healthcare Fraud Actually Works

In June 2026, federal prosecutors announced the largest health care fraud takedown in U.S. history by number of defendants: 455 people charged across 56 federal districts, tied to more than $6.5 billion in alleged false claims. Just months earlier, the Department of Justice reported a record $6.8 billion in False Claims Act recoveries for fiscal […]
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