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	<title>Sequence Inc. Fraud Files Blog &#187; Fraud Prevention</title>
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	<description>Certified Fraud Examiner Tracy Coenen writes about corporate fraud, financial investigations, forensic accounting, and fraud examinations.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Identity theft a huge problem for small businesses</title>
		<link>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/07/02/identity-theft-a-huge-problem-for-small-businesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m quoted in an article on TheStreet.com about identity theft and the risks to small businesses. The bottom line? Most small businesses don&#8217;t take the threat of a data compromise seriously enough. They forget that their reputation is on the line, and they could lose customers with a data breach. And it&#8217;s much more expensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of a fraud investigation gone wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/06/17/anatomy-of-a-fraud-investigation-gone-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote an article for White Collar Crime Fighter, detailing my experience with a company that tried to do a fraud investigation on its own. The investigation was headed up by the president of the small manufacturer, who should have been spending his time on his real job duties, in order to help the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suspect in title company fraud to be charged with felonies</title>
		<link>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/06/17/suspect-in-title-company-fraud-to-be-charged-with-felonies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In March I wrote about a case involving Parkview Title Service and a mom and daughter team that allegedly stole huge sums of money from it. In mid-2006, Bill Molkenthen (the owner of Parkview) believed that Bobbi Moths and her daughter Jamie Wilson were stealing from him, using the money to pay personal bills like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four key pieces to an effective corporate fraud investigation</title>
		<link>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/05/29/four-key-pieces-to-an-effective-corporate-fraud-investigation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/05/29/four-key-pieces-to-an-effective-corporate-fraud-investigation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 20:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are four critical pieces to a corporate investigative puzzle. With the proliferation of stories of corporate fraud, managers and executives would be wise to familiarize themselves with the workings of a corporate fraud investigation.
A corporate investigative policy is necessary because it is important to have guidelines in place for the start of an investigation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church fraud article live</title>
		<link>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/05/20/church-fraud-article-live/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/05/20/church-fraud-article-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 01:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised, my article on church fraud is live here:  				 Let the Faithful Pray There&#8217;s No Fraud.
I&#8217;ve been investigating a couple of cases of church fraud lately, and it makes me sad to think that people will steal from churches, of all places. Sadly, many churches make it all too easy for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essentials of Corporate Fraud featured on Networking Today</title>
		<link>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/05/08/essentials-of-corporate-fraud-featured-on-networking-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/05/08/essentials-of-corporate-fraud-featured-on-networking-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Barb Bartlein&#8217;s article about my book, Essentials of Corporate Fraud, was featured on Networking Today last week. A big thank you to Barb for creating such great buzz about my book, and for help getting the word out about what executives need to know about employee fraud.

&#169;2008Sequence Inc. All Rights Reserved..]]></description>
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		<title>An average company wasted $1.7 million on SOX 404 Compliance last year</title>
		<link>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/05/04/an-average-company-wasted-17-million-on-sox-404-compliance-last-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/05/04/an-average-company-wasted-17-million-on-sox-404-compliance-last-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 16:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial Executives International polled companies for the 7th year in a row to determine how much it costs to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This year, they talked to 185 companies with average annual revenues of $4.7 billion.
The total average cost of compliance was $1.7 million in 2007. This is a decrease [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tricks credit card companies play</title>
		<link>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/05/02/tricks-credit-card-companies-play/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/05/02/tricks-credit-card-companies-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 20:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken and Daria Dolan had a really good post on WalletPop today about the tricks credit card companies play. Yes, they&#8217;re all legal. Yes, they&#8217;re all outlined in your credit card agreement. But they are a bit sneaky and can catch you off guard.
Unfortunately, if you want to play the credit card game today, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower, by Cynthia Cooper</title>
		<link>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/04/05/extraordinary-circumstances/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/04/05/extraordinary-circumstances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Cooper was a true corporate whistleblower. She became famous, not by choice, but because of the WorldCom financial statement fraud valued at $11 billion. She was the Vice President of Internal Audit at WorldCom, a position that was not easily obtained. She almost single-handedly created the internal audit department at WorldCom, and her book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You ask the search engine, I answer</title>
		<link>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/04/04/you-ask-the-search-engine-i-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/04/04/you-ask-the-search-engine-i-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing another round of interesting search engine queries. Most of these were from Google. Some were from other search engines. But these are the things people are looking for, and it just happens to lead them to this site:
Search: sarbanes oxley act positive benefit
Answer: Not so much. I maintain that there has been little [...]]]></description>
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