OSINT CAN LAY GROUNDWORK FOR A SOLID FOCUSED FRAUD INVESTIGATION – AND EVEN MAKE A CASE, SAYS ACFE EXPERT
March 5th, 2022
While fraud investigators benefit from emotional smarts and intuition, the ability to dig into online open-source intelligence – or OSINT – offers new practitioners an excellent way to scope out targets before subjects or witnesses are interviewed face-to-face. Mason Wilder, a research manager at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), stressed how OSINT has been developed by experts of different disciplines and backgrounds sharing techniques to deliver an “almost limitless wealth of information and techniques that are incredibly valuable to ...
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