If you want to learn more about the “art” of interviewing fraud suspects, here is an interview that I gave on the subject. Let me know what you think…

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An interview with Paul McCormack, fraud investigator and educator…

How many fraud suspects have you interviewed in the course of your career as a certified fraud examiner?

After the first hundred, I actually stopped counting, but I’ve easily interviewed more than 500 people while investigating employee and third party fraud.

How is interviewing a fraud suspect different from the interrogations we see dramatized on TV?

The goals are very different. On TV, the actor-detective wants to force a confession. It makes for entertaining television. The goal of the interview in a private company is to encourage the employee to share information. Threatening him or her, with termination or legal action, isn’t appropriate or effective. In fact, there are legal risks to it. Tactics that may be appropriate for law enforcement can get you in trouble if you employ them as an interviewer in a corporation.

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