Be on Guard!!

As my confidant Mike T would say ”You’re a Yella Bastard!” or maybe it’s just the big yellow

M that makes us laugh on TV. Despite some of the humor surrounding it fraud is real. So are

the characters that play a role in ruining our lives so they can gamble, laugh, get high on

soda, and binge on personal and financial gains. Here is what you should know about the

beware sign from the prohibition to make your life happy instead of a hell wrought on you by

fraudsters.

Remember now that cannabis is legal to keep it classy. I like Delta 8 hemp. It is clean, light, and classy full of good times with the besties at the sociable party. Delta 9 marijuana is intoxicating and should be used sparingly in moderation to keep health a priority for adults. Vacations, pertinent breaks, and appropriate wind downs are good times to take a break with it. Now don’t get me wrong beer is fun, but I think that taking one’s time with alcohol to enjoy is a better bet for a classy, healthy, and responsible time. Funnels, keg stands, and stupers leave memories to regret and do not accomplish anything in a social life with the ladies and gents. What does this have to do with fraud?

Being under the influence while intoxicated causes one to be impaired in decision making, which leaves you subordinated. Without independent thought fraudsters can and will get control of you to operate your brain. They seize your technology, family, friends, and networks to weave their influence to make off with the loot. It happens in established trusted organizations right in front of you and robs you blind. What do you do? Be vigilant!! The FBI and DEA are friends and here to help!!! So DARE to aspire everyone and clean up your communities. We are all citizen soldiers and the strength of our country that belongs to us not criminals is our best tool to fight fraud and win!!

Bogus Cake!!

    I would like to talk about a few things regarding my experience in undergraduate education in the Youngstown/Warren regional area. They are topics that are vivid in my life skills and certainly apply to all of you emerging from the prohibition of cannabis for the fidelity of your new agreements in Ohio with Ohio by the people. The subject at hand? Can you have your cake and eat it...

• Why whistleblowing gets a start.
• The subtleties of a lie as delicious as cake.
• The delicious cake and trust.
• Building a promise.
• A agreement that binds life.
• The struggle with a whistle.
• Why damage is real and not cake.

Why Whistleblowing Gets a Start

    To much of my surprise in the recent issue of a magazine I was reading whistleblowing is a thriving industry of hunters for the truth and profits. I found that whistleblowing should be the pursuit of honesty, integrity, truth, transparency, and facts that are our civic duty to make our society a better place to live in and build communities that have strength, resilience, and agility to compete as the best in the world and do not fail our citizens. To me whistleblowing is a necessity to keep our society functioning and business in check with morals and ethics so we can go to sleep at night without nightmares. Unfortunately sleeping soundly in our society is a luxury because people do not behave ethically and believe in morals. Honestly most people do not care about each other and expend you for greed, profits, personal gains, financial gains, espionage, theft, and the list of crimes that occur daily without a person caring that prattle on with their devious intents endlessly. So... should we blow the whistle? The answer is... HELL YES!!

The Subtleties of a Lie as Delicious as Cake

    Given all of this is occurring I think that lying is definitely proliferated in the process. People are lying without caring about it and do not believe it even matters. They lie about everything. To small tidbits of their life to professional agendas that govern university pillars and law enforcement agencies. The lies are played off as subtle and our delicious as cake to the lier and never stop coming. Like endless desert that is delightful and deserves appropriate etiquette to them because they deserved to be served and continue to lie and demand your respect.

The Delicious Cake and Trust

    So having discussed the blatant outrage of cake that is being served, what do you think when you are eating your cake that is bound with trust in your agreements for products, services, warranties, etc. I think one should understand that ethics is tantamount in these bargain agreements we engage in daily for products and services and should not be abused. Trust based on these ethics that are expected to be followed bound by moral codes is certainly relevant and most definitely should be addressed expediently when a problem occurs and not sideline anyone in the gutter indefinitely with their throat cut. 

Building a Promise

    With this understanding of trust (much like your cake in front of you) I think a promise is a part of every agreement (including our daily economical bargain agreements of standard life in the USA). I enjoy watching trust fabricate via a promise to complete a agreement. Fabricating promises based on sound trust is amazing and is the foundation of our countries economy and out capitalist society. Amazing promises can be built and fabricated by Washington DC, the US Attorney's Office, the FBI, and nationalized law firms to create amazing futures and agreements that boggle the world's minds and make us the wealthiest, most successful, shining leaders the world has to offer.  

A Agreement that Binds Life

    Remember that agreements can last a lifetime and include the most intricate ethics, morals, trust, and promises that form agreements that can create a living hell when mismanaged. Please remember as a citizen when you notice something wrong it is your civic duty to make it right. It makes our country number one and that is why we say HELL YES!! to blowing the whistle!!!

The Struggle with a Whistle

    The struggle with a whistle is difficult I am not going to lie. But much like my Catholic belief as a abstinent male waiting for my soul mate that brings me treasures on Earth from Heaven that have unimaginable value so does the relief and affirmation of correct moral and ethical duty. The blessings from both can lead to substantial rewards on Earth and in Heaven for those that bring trust, stability, goodness, justice, peace, and fidelity to our society.

Why Damage is Real and Not Cake

So... don't forget to guard yourselves and your family from sinners and their evil and the fraud, waste, and abuse in our society. It is definitely there, will defiantly assault you, terrorize you, and whip you into submission. Remember that you can help fight it with your civic duty and maintain trust in your agreements so your promises establish fidelity with your agreements and our society flourishes.

The Bogus Sentinel

Is a Bogus Believers Sentinel tuff to get? You bet. The ACFE award looks to me to be hazardous, tedious, exhaustive and a direct war with everybody you notice touching frauds to be at your throat and attempting to ruin your life. Is there a problem in our society with protecting Sentinel prospects that are out there that can better our society. I think so and I have not seen the results in the profession that are able to combat the tidal wave of fraud, waste and abuse that make the Sentinel a walk in the park for anyone.

What do I think the worst problem is with the road to a Sentinel? Extortion and bribery are a evil duo that bands people together for all sorts of schemes like pyramids consisting of intellectual property theft for personal gain, monetary gain for a better lifestyle that secures assets to cover your but and break your adversaries, espionage for assets for the perpetrators selves and companies and even going as far as emotional hacking associated with the intellectual theft that weakens victims to keep them under control for indefinite periods of time if the perpetrators can accomplish it. Yep, this is all because of the evil duo above that runs like a steam piston engine in a steam roller and flattens everything good in it’s path. With this in mind you have to keep fighting for that Sentinel and it does not get better.

So what do you do now after being flattened and cold knocked out and wasted from the fight. Keep fighting until the whistle is heard and the DOJ picks up the scabbard and does better than rattling with no teeth. I think another problem with this is that people like to engineer immoral and illegal agreements the DOJ does not recognize and enforce to make their illegitimate lifestyle active with force you can’t fight. They do it with credibility that is politically corrupt, engineering disinformation, utilizing illegitimate identification systems and identification fabrication to bust your ass after you are steamrolled, knocked out and told to stop crying and suck it up that the DOJ line is long and laborious so why try.

What do we need to do to solve this problem? Giving whistleblowers a stronger voice with better resources as they struggle for protection, anonymity and building a relationship with the DOJ to bust everything related to this problem under the sun from color of law violations, narcotics scandals, political bafoonism that fuels corrupt propaganda and corporate greed that festers fraud to name a few would be a win!!!

SCCE and Bogus Believers on Fraud and Whistleblowing

Follow the following link for your bogus Believer Blog with the SCCE Fraud and Whistleblowing Blog published by myself as a Guest Blogger.  Click here for my first blog.

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Blog

Whistleblowers face challenges when they operate in silence with the government and deserve our thanks.  This can also mean an end to their career for the benefit of the people. Remember that whistleblowers deserve our thanks.  Once the whistleblower is known some of the most difficult scenarios a accountant can face play out. So… what to do if you are a whistleblower?  Join me with the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics where I will be a guest blogger and subscribe. There you will be able to see myself and other bloggers wrestle with tough topics for accountants, compliance professionals, legal professionals and the ethics they are governed with.  Link to Blogs Here

The Rude Dude and Networks

Following the previous discussion about the rude dude and networking etiquette,

which was last month. I think we should explore some of the types of networks that

can be affected by such behavior. As students we learn in college some of the more

important aspects of maturity. To apply them as Juniors and Seniors is a mark of

progress towards professionalism and a tool to be used for the future when we embark

on our career. The rude dude stands to cause problems in professional and private

networks.  Professional networks encompass superiors, clients, coworkers,

competitors and business partners. I think once one graduates from college

that the rude dude is certainly a problem of immaturity. As professions vary

we all have different responsibilities in the scenarios involving the rude due and our

network.  However, we all have a civic duty to perform to

make our communities better and we should all contribute to the removal of the rude

dude. Not just for the security of our professional networks but also for the security

of our private networks that house interpersonal relationships. Our families, friends

and acquaintances do not need to tolerate the rude dude in their daily life so it is

important to continue to follow our civic duties to make our community better and

get rid of the rude dude.  Have a blessed Palm Sunday!!

The Rude Dude

A bit on network etiquette that stems from the culture of deviants.  One of the requirement s in Night Hawk networking 101 is to be courteous and ask permission to utilize resources in yours or other networks.  I think that people that barge in and start erecting network structures and using resources without express permission is rude and creates disaster for the network host.  A bit on express permission, which is oral or written permission.  I think it is mandatory in networks because it helps protect your resources.  This is exactly why LinkedIn exists, to facilitate express permissions for resources.  Now a bit on networks, fraud and nefarious individuals.  Think about how destructive drugs are in a network.  Think about the above where valuable resources are stored for professional and personal use.  How about wise guys using drugs barging into your network and advertising “Coke” the soda as a inappropriate joke to avoid recognition for their involvement with the drug.  This type of deviant horseplay if you will must be restricted from personal and professional networks in all of it’s destructive forms.  Remember that in the new era of cannabis legalization.  Its movement is still developing and you can bet that those networks will harbor corruption somewhere, somehow someway.   

When Pillars Fail 2

Pillars are the most important part of a communities professional structure.  

As i mentioned in a previous blog, pillars maintain important aspects of a community's

ability to function properly.  The impact of a failing pillar is certainly noticeable.  It’s impact

is felt around surrounding communities.  What is worse is when the multiple systems in

pillars fail.  It can be very worrisome to the community.  The blowback of such a

catastrophe can be felt throughout the professional structure of the pillars network affecting

many other professionals.  It is noticeable that the impact not only affects the community

as a whole civil structure, but also can reverberate through a specific internal structure

hat can create a problematic core of values.  Depending on how the problems were avoided

and how long, one can see the importance of the ethical discharge in this example.  

By avoiding it and allowing the problem to take root in pillars and potentially spread you can

see the size and scope of how a community disaster grows.  It is important for us as a

community to maintain resilience in the matters pertaining to fraud and white collar crime

to maintain a stable community and avoid a potential collapse or worse a corrupt system

of pillars and professionals.   

      

Integrity of Pillars

Integrity of Pillars

Think of the pillars in your community.  Which ones stand out as being the most important?  Businessman, judges, politicians all have their place in the community with its own sphere of influence.  Do your pillars have integrity?  What about the integrity of handshake transactions being available to you.  What do handshake transactions sound like to you?  They are simply put transactions without contracts. They are your word.  In today's business world that does not sound like a secure arms length business transaction or a securely bound legal agreement.  There are companies out there that have the integrity to generate that trust. They complete every business transaction on a handshake only.  When is the last time you did business with one of your community pillars and relied on a handshake only?  What was the outcome?  It speaks of your pillars integrity if he or she does what they know they should do and you know it too.  If they fail that is a failure at the tone of the top in the community and is unhealthy.  Does this result in a leadership vacuum if no one responds to the problem?  It may corrupt and certainly cause that problem.  Be aware of what you can do for your community to keep a healthy tone at the top and keep leadership functional.

Modern Law and Reverse Mentoring

In my community, I have noticed ways to help.  One of the best ways to help your community is through volunteer work.  As a volunteer Associate for the ACFE in understand the importance of the people.  I am sworn to protect them from white collar crime and fraud because of my membership ethics requirements.  Thus, it is very rewarding to volunteer.  I cam across the concept of reverse mentoring not to long ago, which is pairing older employees with younger employees in it’s simplest form.  Although this mentoring primarily deals with trends, technology and social processes I think it can be used in volunteer work as well.  I have thought about the many different ways I can reverse mentor in my community as a volunteer Associate for the ACFE and found some delightful avenues.  One of them that is super cool is assisting the Justice Department with social media processes through technology in the time of modern laws.  One example that is beginning to unfold is the popularity of recreational consumption of cannabis in our country. The young are certainly adept at social media processes with technology and older generations trying to grasp the movement can have a blast on social media with the youth who can use wisdom coming down the ladder for thier future of safe and fun recreational use of cannabis.  I think by exercising this method that other ways to assist with reverse mentoring as a volunteer will become apparent to us all and we should implement them for the best benefits of our community!!  

Your Sneakers Part Two

Your Sneakers Part Two

When one is faced as an employer or whistleblower in the scenario in my first You Sneakers blog, one should not act with haste but should show care.  Try to remember that the people can benefit from your actions and they double duty as good PR.  One certainty is community impact based on actions you take to combat fraud.  We all live in a community with others so once again it is best for the people it is good for the community.  Perpetrators that commit fraud should be fired and administered by a judge.  This is important because the community does not need a perpetrator moving to the next target in the community and causing more damage.  Remember that there are peers in your community that have valuable insight and can be relied upon as pillars of the community.  This presents great networking opportunities for the future and when you are a network facilitator and engineer like I am, it is gravy.  Last but not least be aware that a community thrives with connections, good and bad.  Try to remember keep your eyes open for impairment of judgement for you and your networks behalf because even though Sarbanes Oxley covers accountancy, it’s ethics can save the day for everyone!!

Your Sneakers

A con artist is a person who cheats or tricks others by persuading them to believe something that is not true.  Con artists are bad news.  Especially when they are into business that is worse than lame snake oil.  I can think of some cons off the top of my head.  Deception is certainly one of the reasons why the problem sticks out.  Deception with a twist makes it more of an art for the perpetrator.  Let's take a fraud involving race tracking for example.  The bet this resolves around is tear off instant win tickets.  Let us think of the fraud triangle at this juncture.  Pressure, Opportunity and Realization are the elements of the triangle.  So, the administrator of the gaming tips off friends which bin the winning tickets are in.  He does not grant this intuition to common customers.  The inside scoop gives his friends a better chance to hit than the common customer.    Back to the fraud triangle.  The pressure is that the behavior is appealing because it puts me ahead of the rest of the crowd socially making me popular, which grants me psychological amenities that the others are deprived of.  The opportunity here is to please a friend for social and other types of behavior in a reward structure.  Realization is the justification of the corrupt action as permissible.  In this example, “it’s just being cool with my friend”, while this person would never purport to being a part of a fraud for god sakes man.  Please take away from this that a con is a fraud and con artists are people that are criminals. Do not let strangers act in your best interests and keep an eye on family and friends to make sure they are safe.

Stigmata

The stigma of whistleblowing hits hard.  As a young accountant in school I always knew that there were enormous responsibilities pertaining to the security of money.  I was not prepared to understand that this also included information.  Thejournal entries and financial statements were the substance of the field but with the passage of Sarbanes Oxley and it’s brainstorming requirement, secure information could drive the brainstorming in the right direction.  As far as my fraud studies go, I have read some books on the topic to learn that fraud not only hits hard at home, that it can come from the most unexpected sources.  Individuals that have been with a company for 3 years and are impeccable perpetrate frauds that bankrupt companies before it is too late.  That can mean a less favorable future for those in the small town that are employed by the company.  Now, everything has changed in the future for the family.  It hits home unpredictably in such a manner.  One reason anonymity in whistle blowing is so important is the ability to minimize stigma associated with the act of whistleblowing, making a more responsible and educated community along with security for a whistleblower that emerge as a whole effectively and in order.  So remember to say thanks to your fraud fighters in your community and give them your support because it is greatly appreciated and welcome.  

Further on the topic is the need to make sure whistle blowers have support.  Forfeiting a career, in my opinion is not an attractive result to blowing the whistle.  All this does is make the whistle blower more vulnerable by potentially placing them in poverty and open to attacks from groups that may be angry about the exposure of the crime in question.  So... if you are aware of a whistle blower that can use a hand, be a hero too and help them out.  They will appreciate it.

The Double F

The Double F

Fraud and fiduciary.  It takes a terrible toll on people and is like being blindsided.  When breaching a fiduciary agreement you breach a bond of trust.  Social fraud can be a excellent way to subordinate groups of individuals to cooperate with your fiduciary breach via group think, making the problem a community dilemma.  With social fraud, as stated in my last blog, it leads to a circumvention of internal controls.  This is subordination in it’s principle form and has it’s impact in the fiduciary breach by rotting everything to the core.  Back to the community in a dilemma.  Fiduciary problems in the community can upset delicate balances and become virile arguments that destroy lives and ruin reputations.  Rely on your communities support network to help guide you through any fallout and be on guard and remain vigilant for the signs that lead to corruption in the future!!

Let's Be Social!!

The social side of fraud.  Very prevalent and you are exposed to it.  Ever hear of group think? In High School you can call it a click.  Groups of individuals who all have their own perspective as to what reality is like or should be like.  Their influence can be powerful and shape lives, not for the best.  Functional bonds can be a manner in which social functions perpetrate.  The perpetrator(s) act lie predators and seek out other people to join be finding areas they can exploit that may solve peer pressure problems.  Organizational –function serving is a fraud that exists to increase the profitability of the company.  From a academic perspective, I have seen it with executive officers and board members shooting for stock bonuses or golden parachutes and they are perpetrating in order to achieve their goals to make themselves rich.  Affective bonds can cause terrible problems.  An example of it is the swindle that “this is for us”  and one party in the conversation is manipulated and expended in order for the perpetrator to accomplish his or her goal.  Awareness is the best prevention tool according to Murphy and Free (2007) and brainstorming can be a prevention method. Groups of individuals can become powerful and overcome internal controls and perpetrate, so be cautious with whom is selected for brainstorming in order to avoid the fraudsters from entrenching themselves once they find out any brainstorming plans. 

Murphey, Pamela R., Free, Clinton.  The Social side of Fraud: Collusion and Culture.  Fraud Magazine, 30(1), 64-68.