Top Phrases Used By Fraudsters
What do people plotting to steal money say to each other? According to the FBI, this.
Computer Weekly writes about software that reads email conversations to detect potential fraud…
The analytics software can also track and evaluate the use of code words. The searches of data, which initially do not identify employees, also flags uncharacteristic changes in tones and language and has been tailored for specific sectors, particularly traders.
After running it on tons of conversations, investigators turned up over 3,000 common words and phrases, plus several trends. Here are the 15 most common phrases…
- Cover up
- Write off
- Illegal
- Failed investment
- Nobody will find out
- Grey area
- They owe it to me
- Do not volunteer information
- Not ethical
- Off the books
- Backdate
- No inspection
- Pull earnings forward
- Special fees
- Friendly payments
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