• Defrauding telecommunication
subscribers
• Schemes conducted over the
telephone
for specific patterns of behavior. For instance, one can look for transactions of a
certain amount – say, more than $1,000
– between employees inside a company.
However, similar to ever-evolving e-mail
spam, the fraudsters are always devising new methods that can remain undetected for some period.
Unknown fraud schemes, especially
new ones, may continue for years without detection until they are uncovered
in an investigation or a company’s deep
dive into costs and profitability variances
While fraud is prevalent everywhere,
its identification is not simple. There are
two types of fraud schemes: “known”
and “unknown.” Known fraud schemes
are easier to identify. They are the scenarios where fraud has been identified
in the past. Rules engines can be established in computer systems to look
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