"Profiles of a Fraudster" - Download whitepaper now
Insights into typical offender profiles, risk areas and prevention strategies
White-collar crime threatens companies from within. The new KPMG paper "Profiles of a Fraudster" analyses 669 perpetrator profiles from over 250 fraud cases worldwide and provides a precise picture of white-collar criminals.
The most important findings:
The most important findings:
- Typical perpetrators have been with the company for many years, are respected - and often unsuspicious.
- 76 per cent of fraud cases are due to inadequate internal controls.
- In more than half of the cases, perpetrators acted as part of a team.
- The main types of fraud: embezzlement, manipulated procurements and falsified documents.
- Detection is most often achieved by whistleblowers.
The whitepaper provides practical recommendations on internal control systems, ethical corporate culture and technological prevention.