
Leonard W. Vona Blog
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Leonard W. Vona, Fraud Auditing, Inc helps you to find fraud and simplify complex fraud cases. We can also help you conduct fraud audits and investigations. Follow our blog that focuses on fraud data analytics, fraud plan, fraud detection, fraud auditing, fraud risk statements, and many more.
Leonard W. Vona Blog
3w ago
Current audit standards call for us to use a mitigation standard when it comes to audits This means that unless you want to be an outlaw, your assessment will end with mitigate. However, the question I want you to ask yourself is, right now do we have enough information to properly assess the mitigate question ..read more
Leonard W. Vona Blog
1M ago
Let me introduce a new model for assessing fraud risk mitigation. Before you read my blog, remember sarcasm is good, if it makes you think. Remember our theme, to look behind the curtain. The curtain is the current professional audit standards ..read more
Leonard W. Vona Blog
3M ago
We're continuing with my thought process of looking behind curtains in fraud risk, but with a slight change. This time, we're looking behind a new curtain ..read more
Leonard W. Vona Blog
4M ago
This month I will present at a conference a new approach to fraud risk assessment. It is the cumulation of my 40 years of experience in building the fraud audit model ..read more
Leonard W. Vona Blog
5M ago
Businesses face a growing threat of account take over attacks as fraudsters become more sophisticated and take advantage of advances in technology. This week, we're pulling back the curtain to take a closer look at them and how to add this to your fraud protection strategy.
Fraud Trivia: Phishing
Phishing is a prevalent type of social engineering that aims to steal data from the message receiver. Typically, this data includes personal information, usernames and passwords, and/or financial information. Phishing is consistently named as on ..read more
Leonard W. Vona Blog
6M ago
The theme of the last three blogs was “look behind the curtain” in order to tell the fraud story. Upon reflection, maybe I did not tell the entire fraud story. Maybe, I did not look behind the right curtain. So, this month, we are going to look behind a different curtain ..read more
Leonard W. Vona Blog
7M ago
This month, we're pulling back the curtain again to take a look at a look at what could be going on even when everything seems to be fine on the surface. We'll consider what can happen despite the appearance of effective internal controls and how to uncover it.  ..read more
Leonard W. Vona Blog
8M ago
This month, we're showing how to "look behind the curtain" to uncover fraud using a sole-source contract as an example. This is when a contract is intentionally written to go to a particular vendor with ill intent.  ..read more
Leonard W. Vona Blog
9M ago
My last series of blogs discussed strategies for detecting shell companies. I know they work because I have refined the strategies throughout my career. Now we will discuss what causes those strategies to fail.
What are the inhibitors to the successful use of artificial intelligence in fraud detection? Humans ..read more
Leonard W. Vona Blog
10M ago
This month's blog is dedicated to making you aware of the scourge on society. Slavery. We now call it human trafficking. The United Nations explains human trafficking as follows ..read more