Banking and institutional fraud
- Loan, credit and deposit fraud
- Account takeover and payment fraud
- Forged instruments and fund diversion
- Insider-related fraud and misappropriation
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Financial fraud and cyber-fraud topics
This page groups common financial-fraud, cyber-fraud and digital-payment topics. Examples use fictional data.
Topics
Types of fraud covered
These categories can overlap. They are examples for study, not legal findings or a complete list.
01 02 Digital-payment fraud
- UPI, QR-code and payment-link fraud
- Card, ATM and wallet fraud
- SIM, OTP and remote-access scams
- Mobile and internet-banking incidents
03 Cyber-enabled scams
- Phishing, smishing, vishing and impersonation
- Business email compromise and fake support
- Marketplace, job and loan-app scams
- Identity misuse and account takeover
04 Investment and securities fraud
- Fake investment and trading platforms
- Ponzi-type or unauthorised schemes
- Misrepresentation and broker-related concerns
- Market-manipulation topics
05 Corporate and commercial fraud
- Invoice, vendor and procurement fraud
- Accounting, payroll and expense manipulation
- Fictitious transactions and asset diversion
- Contractual and beneficial-ownership concerns
06 Digital-asset and cross-border risks
- Virtual-asset, wallet and exchange scams
- Cross-border payment fraud
- Layering through digital assets
- Transaction-tracing concepts and limits
Keep facts separate from questions
A transaction pattern can point to something worth checking. It does not prove who controlled an account, why a payment was made or whether a crime occurred.
Use records you are allowed to review
Exercises should use fictional, anonymised or authorised material. Keep the source and date with each record.