Fraud deterrence

(Fuller 1). Oddly, on that same evening President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wikes Booth in Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC (Blakemore 1). At first United States Secret service was under the Treasury Department with the mission to prevent fraud against the government. However on March 2003 The United States Secret Service transferred from the U.S Department Treasury to the Department of Homeland Security, which became the United State’s first counterintelligence agency (Reese 2). The…

Barriers to entry are factors that prevent a startup from entering a particular market. Jack and Stephen Teeling faced two kinds of barriers to entry in the Irish whiskey business in 2012. The two barriers to entry were capital requirements, such as financial and human capital, and access to distribution channels. As in any industry, there are costs for starting and operating a business. Some of the high capital costs Jack and Stephen incurred are mostly start-up costs; High capital costs…

Description of the remaining publicly available datasets is given in Table 5.1. The Conficker P2P botnet dataset contains data from the UCSD Network Telescope for three days between November 2008 and January 2009. The first day, 21st November 2008 data, covers the onset of the Conficker A infection. On the second day, 21st December 2008, only Conficker A was active and during the third day both Conficker A and B were active. This dataset contains 68 compressed pcap files each containing one hour…

Miller, J. and J. Miller., (2009). 21st Century Criminology: A Reference Handbook. 1st ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, pp.466 - 471. In the book, J. Miller discusses the idea of criminology in the twenty-first century, since the arrival of computers in the 1970’s and with the further introduction of the web in the early 1990’s there was increased use of these technologies by criminals as a means of committing cybercrimes awhile masking their identity’s. The source addresses how cybercrime…

of its competitors. You mentioned how the organization follows the Golden Rule. This is one of the major factors why the organization is successful. In today’s business field, many organizations practice dishonesty and adopt an unethical behavior. Fraud is an issue that is increasing in today’s organization at all levels. Kramer (2015) described that individuals are tempted to engage in fraudulent actions for several reason, however, increasing the profitability…

think outside of the box and break the normal thinking pattern. The system loophole appears where management assumes average people wouldn’t do. That is exactly where perpetrator would break through. Although we know auditing is not designed to catch fraud, and it is because auditing procedure follows the normal thinking pattern. As auditors, we must think outside of the box to increase the effectiveness of our auditing, which is also adding…

. In May 1984, he borrowed money from a co-worker and bounced several checks trying to repay him. In July 1984, Pollard’s supervisor received a letter of indebtedness from the Navy Federal Credit Union reporting that Pollard was delinquent in repaying a loan. His supervisor failed to report the letter to the OIC and did not record the financial troubles in Pollard’s file. In post-arrest interviews, Pollard claimed to have perceived anti-Israel/anti-Semitic sentiment from coworkers and…

Securities and Exchange Commission a Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that reels in prospect investors by asking them to invest in certain opportunities that claim to have a high return rate with little to no risk (Sec.gov). Once the first round of investors put down their money it is seized and then new investors hear…

If a gamer was asked to describe this game in a single word, they would probably say “Hacking” The main character Aiden Pearce is on a mission for justice; with access to ctOS and skilled combat training. It is possible for him to use a smartphone to spy through mounted cameras, peer into the private lives of the city's citizens and stop anyone who gets in his way. The story line has many twists and turns, where Aiden Pierce’s mission is to find out who is responsible for a family tragedy…

Imagine staring at a jail cell wall all day. You didn’t consider yourself a bad person. So where did you go wrong? This is the daily life of many inmates. “Psychology of Fraud: Why Good People do Bad Things.”(2012) By Chana Joffe-Walt and Alix Spiegel finds connections in fraudster Toby grove’s life that can be traced to a series of mishaps based in unethical practices. They suggest that Toby may have been blind to the potential choices. Research suggests there are other factors, other than…