Payments Fraud : Detect & Prevent Check, ACH and P-Card Schemes

Until recently, paying vendors was a simple matter of processing an invoice and issuing a check. No longer. Major advances in technology have brought new complexity to credit card, purchasing card, ACH processing. With that trend, unfortunately, have come new opportunities for payments fraudsters. To help stay informed about new payment schemes and scams…and about best practices for detecting and preventing them, join us for an information-packed Webinar.

• How to conduct a cost-effective Fraud Risk Assessment of your most commonly used payments methods
• Identifying the critical red flags of all forms of check, ACH and P-card fraud
• Detecting payments fraud before material financial damage occurs
• How to obtain optimal payment fraud prevention tools from your financial institution

• Best practices for payment fraud control --including Segregation of Duties, employee background checks and employee awareness training

• Who commits each major type of payments fraud-focusing on check, ACH and –P-Card schemes
• Inside secrets from actual fraudsters
• Vendor/billing schemes that exploit payments process control weaknesses
• Latest electronic payments schemes (ACH hijacking, spear-phishing, social engineering and more) 
• Check counterfeiting, forgery and tampering schemes to be aware of
• How to detect common external payments schemes versus internal attacks

• CPAs
• Financial Services Professionals
• Senior Financial Executives
• Internal Auditors
• AP Managers
• Treasury Staff
• Operations Managers
• Controllers
• CFOs
• Treasurers
• Compliance Officers
• Security
• Risk Managers

Peter Goldmann is president of FraudAware LLC, the publisher of White-Collar Crime Fighter, a widely read monthly newsletter for internal auditors, controllers, corporate counsel, financial operations managers and fraud investigators. The newsletter is in its 15th year of publication under Peter's leadership. Peter is the author of “Fraud in the Markets: Why it Happens and How to Fight It”, published by John Wiley & Sons, as well as four other anti-fraud books. Peter also developed FraudAware, the leading employee fraud awareness training program. A user-friendly learning tool, FraudAware uses workshop, Webinar and E-Learning formats to educate employees and managers at all levels in how to detect, prevent and report incidents of fraud or suspicious conduct. In addition, Peter has conducted numerous on-site fraud detection and prevention workshops for internal auditors, attorneys, HR executives and compliance officers at Fortune 500 companies and large not-for profit organizations. He has also been a guest lecturer for college accounting and auditing courses. Peter has 30 years of experience as a business journalist and trainer, having launched, edited and published numerous business trade periodicals covering small business, international trade, management strategy, banking and personal finance. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner. Peter holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a Master's from the London School of Economics (CFE).