Practical, specialist guides on fraud, AML and loss prevention — written for the Australian businesses in the firing line.
A trusted general manager — a family friend by marriage — drained more than $10 million from a family-run construction business over about a decade to feed a gambling habit. A f…
The data on Australian employee fraud — $350m across 102 cases, largest $27.4m, longest 17 years, most undetected for over five years — and why the business is usually the last to know.
A trusted accounts clerk invented fake suppliers and funnelled $3.7m into poker machines over 17 years — undetected until she confessed. How a silent forensic audit catches it.
A trusted Brisbane bookkeeper stole $1.89m over eight years by defeating the one control meant to stop her — caught only by a customer complaint. The forensic lesson.
A CommBank manager gambled away $19m of the bank's money over five years — and the audits never caught it. The case, and the forensic lesson for every business.
$2.18 billion lost to scams in 2025, 274,577 reports with losses, and the top scam types by loss — sourced from the ACCC / National Anti-Scam Centre.
Employees, customers, suppliers, partners — how money quietly leaves a private business, why it hides, and how data-matching with machine learning finds it. On-site or remote, always discreet.
How addiction-driven insider theft works, the warning signs, and how to investigate it discreetly — remotely, from your own data, without tipping off your staff.
Most monitoring alerts are noise. A practical, evidence-led tuning method — baselines, segmentation, below-the-line testing and governance — without losing detection.
Tracing stolen crypto is usually possible; recovery is the harder question — the honest guide, plus how to spot the recovery scammers who target victims twice.
From credential stuffing to SIM swap — how attackers hijack customer accounts, and the layered defence that stops them without punishing genuine customers.
The payment-redirection fraud hitting every size of Australian business — how the attack works, the three-layer defence, and what to do in the first hours.
Why most fraud risk assessments are shelf-ware, and a practitioner's method that maps real money flows, tests real controls and sequences the fixes.
A real market commentator's face is faked to sell a share tip. The pump-and-dump end to end, why people fall for it, and how banks and platforms stop it.
Fake bank scandals, deepfake CEOs and cloned finance personalities — the recurring funnel behind Australia's AI investment fraud, and how to disrupt it.
Tranche 2 is live. What accountants, lawyers, real-estate and other newly-captured firms must have in place — and how to catch up fast.
How banks can prevent, detect and respond to scam and APP fraud — the controls, mule detection and the direction on reimbursement.
CNP fraud, 3-D Secure, friendly fraud and winning representment — balancing fraud loss against conversion and false declines.
The complete compliance guide for digital currency exchanges — program, KYC, on/off-chain monitoring, the Travel Rule and independent review.
Stolen-card fraud, account takeover, friendly fraud and refund abuse — a layered defence for Australian online merchants.
Bonus abuse, multi-accounting, collusion and chip-dumping, source of funds and AUSTRAC obligations for gaming operators.
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