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  2. Cheque fraud - Wikipedia

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    (b) Forged signature. The cheque is genuine, but the signature is not that of the account holder. (c) Fraudulently altered. In this case a genuine cheque has been made out by the genuine customer but it has been altered by a fraudster, typically by altering the recipient’s name or by adding words and/or digits in order to inflate the amount.

  3. Check kiting - Wikipedia

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    An example of a check, an instrument potentially used for kiting.. Check kiting or cheque kiting (spelled differently in American and British English spelling) is a form of check fraud, involving taking advantage of the float to make use of non-existent funds in a checking or other bank account.

  4. Check-Kiting: How To See the Warning Signs - AOL

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    The multiple check writing and depositing makes it appear that the money is in the two accounts and helps the person committing fraud to obtain an illegal, interest-free loan. Signs of Check-Kiting

  5. Statement on Auditing Standards No. 99: Consideration of Fraud

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    SAS 99 defines fraud as an intentional act that results in a material misstatement in financial statements. There are two types of fraud considered: misstatements arising from fraudulent financial reporting (e.g. falsification of accounting records) and misstatements arising from misappropriation of assets (e.g. theft of assets or fraudulent expenditures).

  6. Cheque - Wikipedia

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    A bearer check is payable to anyone who is in possession of the document: this would be the case if the cheque does not name a payee, or is payable to "bearer" or to "cash" or "to the order of cash", or if the cheque is payable to someone who is not a person or legal entity, for example if the payee line is marked "Happy Birthday".

  7. Accounting scandals - Wikipedia

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    A month earlier, the company's internal auditors discovered over $3.8 billion in illicit accounting entries intended to mask WorldCom's dwindling earnings, which was by itself more than the accounting fraud uncovered at Enron less than a year earlier. [109] Ultimately, WorldCom admitted to inflating its assets by $11 billion. [110]

  8. Forensic accounting - Wikipedia

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    Forensic accounting and fraud investigation methodologies [14] are different than internal auditing. [15] Thus forensic accounting services [16] and practice should be handled by forensic accounting experts, not by internal auditing experts. Forensic accountants may appear on the crime scene a little later than fraud auditors; their major ...

  9. How To Avoid Fake Check Scams - AOL

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    When it comes down to it, you need all of your hard-earned cash to go where you intentionally send it or stay exactly where you put it. In an ideal world, this would always be the case, and any ...