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Summarize your conclusions

Ideally, a colleague should have gone through the text and you should conclude with a brain-
storming session to identify what action can be taken based on your findings. This may
include questions to be asked or lines of investigations. Sometimes the findings are of such
importance that they can be extracted as a key point and scheduled in a way that they can be
presented to suspects and witnesses.

For example in the cash transaction example we looked at earlier, you may have one single
piece of paper with the suspect’s phrase:
I did not have a chance to find someone to tell them before they went to the vault.

This proves that she knew the missing money was in her locker and she can be confronted
with this ‘key point’ at the appropriate time.

Achievement lies and analysing correspondence

Brochures, proposals, letters etc. containing achievement lies can be analysed using the tech-
niques described above, but sequences of correspondence or different types of documents
produced by the conman can be used to expose additional clues to deception. These are
discussed in Chapter 9.

Conclusion

SAS is an important tool in the fight against deception. If you have laboured through this
chapter and especially the dingo example, you will appreciate it is very time-consuming and
you still need a cunning plan to deal with the information you have uncovered, as we will
see in Chapter 9.