Fraud : Criminal Crime And It Is One Most Common Act Of Crime

Frank Abagnale was a criminal who pretended to be a pilot, a paediatrician and a lawyer. He is most remembered for his efforts in evading the FBI, and his fraudulent activities that led him to become a millionaire before the age of 20. Though hardly any information is documented about his trials across the globe, Abagnale served minimal prison time in the United States, and was later hired by the FBI to educate others of his methods and thus strengthening the FBI’s fraud prevention units. Abagnale is now a millionaire by his own means, operating a company where he

Garcia and Licata took a number of old invoices and issued checks in the invoice amount, subsequently cashing the checks and splitting the amount between themselves. DeLoach soon after joined them and deposited a number of checks, issued by Licata, into various personal accounts throughout Miami. DeLoach used the funds from the fraudulent checks to write checks to Garcia and Licata (Barnett, 2007).

In the scenario given, “Bob” served in many positions within a nonprofit over a three year period of time and he stole $93,000 in a variety of ways. In a small nonprofit this might be a large percentage of their operating expenses. It could have an enormous impact on the nonprofit staying in operation as well as those who are served in the community. First we should address what the organization could have done to detect the theft earlier and areas the organization can prevent fraud. Next we will look at implementing safeguards and checks and balances to prevent future occurrences. And Finally, we will address a public relations campaign that will regain the trust of donors and the community.

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(TCO 5) Fraud is an intentional misrepresentation of facts, made for the purpose of persuading another party to act in a way that causes injury or damage to that party. In our readings and discussions we have seen several examples of fraud in business. Using that experience (1) provide an example of a common fraudulent practice in business with an explanation of how the practice works and (2) name and describe each of the elements of the Fraud Triangle.

In Miami an accounting clerk by the name of Migdalia Ruiz was a able to steal 85,000 from the city of Miami over the course of a couple of years. She too checks from solid waste fees, false alarm fees, liens and business tax receipts from the government and directed the checks to her own personal bank account. She was only caught after leaving her job and the city’s bank informed the government that a check that the city deposited had already been cashed.

Meet 21-year old Frank William Abagnale jr, also known as the Pan Am pilot imposter until he was caught yesterday on the 12:th of august 1969. Through the years he has posed as an Airplane pilot, Teaching assistant, Doctor, Attorney and a Stockbroker and many more con professions that is yet to be uncovered. He has forged checks for 200 million dollars in 26 countries in his short but very sucessfull crime career. At the time of this article he is an inmate in the french prison Perpignan. He will stay there for 6 months and then continue to serve his sentence in a low security prison in Sweden.

Dixon, Illinois is a small town of about 16,000 people (US Census, 2015) located approximately 100 miles southwest of Chicago. Until 2012, Dixon’s claim to fame was being the town where, 40th President of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan grew up (City of Dixon). Today, in addition to hosting a future president for 22 years (City of Dixon), Dixon, IL is known as the location of the largest and longest municipal fraud in United States history (Mathieson, 2014). This paper will examine the main players in the fraud; how the fraud was carried out; the laws and procedures violated; the impact of the fraud; and the measures that could have been taken to prevent it.

In Catch Me if You Can, Frank Abagnale Jr., a sixteen-year-old, witnesses his parent’s divorce, something that caused him a great deal of stress. Soon after finding out about it, he leaves his house and makes the irrational decision to run away. Realizing that he will need a source of income, Frank resorts to attempting to cash fraudulent checks. At first, he is unsuccessful, but after continually tweaking his methods of doing so, he masters the art of check fraud. This plays a crucial part throughout the film as FBI investigators, especially Joseph Shea, known in the movie as Carl Hanratty attempt to track Abagnale's whereabouts.

According to the case The Unusual Suspect, Diann had committed the embezzlement fraud that she pleaded guilty to embezzling approximately $500,000 from her employer and sentenced for 18 months in Florida prison. Diann's fraud scheme is an example of an anti-organizational crime, and she had committed several types of the fraud schemes such as: First, she started from mistakenly pay for her vacation expense through her company account, Second, she used to call the payroll company and told the company to make change to her salary range. Third, she made duplication of her bonus checks. Diann also fraud her employer by misclassifying expenses.

According to Daniel F. Dooley (2008), a member of the Commercial Fraud Taskforce, financial fraud with private middle-market companies is on the rise. In fact, Mr. Dooley believes that he has seen more instances of fraud in the past two years than in the previous ten. He notes seven areas in which financial fraud has increased over the past few years:

The word ‘Fraud’ means that wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.The person who committed the ‘fraud’ case is against the law and the action will be taken by the authorities.The United Kingdom’s parliament had legislated the Theft act 1968,Theft Act 1978 and Theft Act 2006.The question here is how was the relationship between both the Theft Act and offence of fraud?What is the relationship between both the Theft Act and the Fraud Act 2006 ? Author will discuss these two question,analysis whether the offence of fraud had addressed the difficulties under the deception of the Theft Act 1968 and Theft Act 1978 and did the Fraud Act 2006 achieve the expectation and the requirement of the society in this

Some major fraud cases range from under-declaring income to faking sickness/illnesses to even using false names to collect funds. One of the major concerns or problems of fraud in the community are people abusing the system, whom are obtaining the benefits for which they are not entitled to.

There is always a famous case for every type of crime. One of the most famous cases if not the most famous case would be the case against notorious mobster Al Capone. Al Capone was a part of and the head of the Mafia during prohibition times. He was a big time bootlegger and needed to get his money around somehow so he used money laundering to move his money around to make it look legit so that they could never tie it up to him. The government eventually caught him with tax invasion. “Capone's episode inspired Meyer Lansky, the mob's accountant, who structured elaborate international and Swiss financial facilities for safely securing money and vowed never to suffer Capone's fate.” (Matonis, 2013). Capone’s accountant would use the method of money laundering to move the money to a different bank so that the Mob could still have the money that Capone had made from his bootlegging. He also just wanted nothing to do with the situation that Capone was in and thought that the best idea would be to move the money to a location in which it would not lead to him.

Fraud envelops a cluster of irregularities and unlawful acts described by purposeful double dealing. The five components of cheating are an adulteration around a material truth, wrong reality made purposefully, intentionally or rashly, is made to accept, followed up on by the exploited person, and harm reason to the exploited person. Fraud like other wrongdoing are activated by the accompanying three components; a supple of spurring wrongdoers, the accessibility of suitable focuses on, the unlucky deficiency of able guardians. Hence the four components must be available for an individual to submit a cheat which is the open door, low risk of being caught,rationalization in fraudsters personality and justifcation that comes about because of