PSYCHOLOGY CAN HELP IDENTIFY FRAUDSTERS, BUT CYBERCRIME MAKES THIS JOB MUCH HARDER

COMPANIES want to avoid hiring fraudsters, but can trained HR professionals weed out the scammers at interview through detected personality traits? It is a tough call and cybercrime makes this job so much harder. Lee Adendorff reports.   IT has never been an easy job for company personnel managers to detect fraudsters before they embezzle, counterfeit, bribe and steal. There are statistical indicators, but they are far from precise. According to the 2016 Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners ...


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