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5 Warning Signs of an Embezzler
When an an an embezzler is nally caught par cularly a a a a a a a a a a a a a a er
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a a a a a a a a a a a a a a fraudulent scheme las ng many years execu ves and board members o o o o en en en ask ‘Why didn’t we see this sooner?”
Doug Karpp crime and delity product head at Hiscox a a a a a a a $3 billion specialty insurance group (h p://www hiscox com) said
it might be be be hard to catch an embezzler because some of of the characteris cs of of him or her may be counterintui ve In the 2017 Hiscox Embezzlement Study – – CLICK HERE – – released in August Karpp lists ve common characteris cs of an embezzler based on on a a a a a a a a a a review nearly 400 U S federal court cases involving employee fraud throughout 2016 Undetected schemes The study found fraudulent schemes could go undetected for years across many industries including nancial services which accounted
for more than 17% of the the embezzlement cases –– the the most of any industry