Most insider theft does not look like theft. It looks like a routine vendor payment, a signed check with a sensible memo line, or an invoice that fits neatly inside the budget. That is exactly why check tampering and billing schemes remain so costly. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Occupational Fraud 2026: A […]

A bookkeeper in Plantation, Florida had a decade of trust, full signature authority on the company’s bank accounts, and no one checking her work. Over six years, she moved $9.8 million out of the business, one wire transfer and one fake vendor name at a time, before she was finally caught and sentenced to 51 […]

When most business owners discover embezzlement, they focus on one number: how much was stolen. That number is shocking enough. The ACFE’s Occupational Fraud 2024: Report to the Nations found that the average occupational fraud case costs an organization $1.7 million and that organizations collectively lose an estimated 5% of their annual revenue to fraud […]