fake invoice scams
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Fake Invoice Scams: Directory Listings, Domain Renewals, and Marketing Offers

An envelope lands on the accounts payable desk. It names your company, lists your website domain, shows an account number and a due date, and asks for a few hundred dollars to keep a “listing” active. Nobody ordered it, but it looks routine, so it gets paid. That is how fake invoice scams work. They […]
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tax evasion vs. tax avoidance
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Tax Fraud vs. Tax Evasion vs. Tax Avoidance: Where the Legal Line Sits

A manufacturer moves a profitable product line into a subsidiary to capture a state tax credit. A restaurant owner pays half the kitchen staff in cash and leaves those wages off the books. A consultant books a family beach trip as a “client retreat.” All three cut their tax bills, but only one is clearly […]
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merchant cash advance scams

Merchant Cash Advance Scams and Predatory Lenders: Red Flags Every Business Owner Should Know

A restaurant owner signs a short “advance” agreement. Within weeks, daily debits drain the operating account and the lender threatens a lawsuit. This is how many merchant cash advance scams begin. In June 2026, the New York Attorney General sued Rapid Ruling, an arbitration platform accused of secretly working with a lender to rig outcomes. […]
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Data Analytics in Fraud Detection

Data Analytics in Fraud Detection: How Anomalies Reveal Hidden Schemes

Most fraud hides in plain sight, inside thousands of ordinary transactions nobody has time to read. The ACFE’s Occupational Fraud 2026: A Report to the Nations analyzed 2,402 cases across 143 countries with more than $3.4 billion in losses. The median scheme ran for 12 months before anyone caught it, and internal audit uncovered only […]
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how money laundering works

Money Laundering 101: How Dirty Money Gets Cleaned and How It’s Traced

Every fraud ends with the same question: where did the money go? The United Nations estimates that 2% to 5% of global GDP, roughly $800 billion to $2 trillion a year, is laundered. U.S. financial institutions filed 4.7 million suspicious activity reports with FinCEN in fiscal 2024. Chainalysis reports that illicit on-chain laundering grew from […]
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cryptocurrency fraud
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Cryptocurrency Fraud: How Investigators Trace Money on the Blockchain

A controller approves an urgent wire. Three hours later, the money has hopped through five wallets and landed at an overseas exchange. Most executives assume that is the end of the story. It is not. The scale explains why this matters now. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) logged 181,565 cryptocurrency-related complaints in 2025, […]
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