Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

We are currently developing an exciting program of events for 2006 and will continue to post events as and when the plans are finalised. We still have openings for sponsors and would like to hear from you on info@acfeuk.co.uk if your interested. We have also been able to negotiate discounts for our members at a number of events that we feel may be of interest. When booking these please ensure that you receive the full ACFE discount.

We are currently developing an exciting program of events for 2006 and hope to post full details in the very near future. In the meantime our programme outline is listed below, if you feel that you or someone you know could speak on any of these subjects we would love to hear from you. In addition, we still have openings for sponsors and would like to hear from you on info@acfeuk.co.uk if your interested.

Guest Speaker: Jenny Rowe
Venue: Opus Restaurant, Cornwall Street, Birmingham B3 2DL

Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, said:
“Fraud costs the UK economy many billions of pounds each year. We are all victims of fraud. We pay higher prices in shops, higher interest rates on our mortgages, and higher premiums on our insurance policies because of fraud. Tax and benefit fraud means higher taxes.

The Fraud Review is s comprehensive review of fraud which makes challenging recommendations for preventing and tackling a multi-billion pound a year crime in the UK.
The ACFE UK Chapter are delighted to invite you to hear directly from the Fraud Review team on:

• Understanding the approach and coverage of the Fraud Review
• Identifying what is the role of government in tackling fraud
• Taking a proactive approach to combat fraud
• Implementing an effective structure for fraud investigations
• Examining the role of the justice system

Jenny Rowe has been Director of Policy and Administration at the Attorney General’s Office since February 2004, and is chair of the inter-agency Steering Group on the Fraud Review. Immediately prior to joining the AGO, Jenny was secretary to the Butterworth Review of HM Customs & Excise. Jenny was Principal Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor from October 1997 to October 1999.

Jenny will be speaking over a three course lunch with wine. The lunch is open to both members and non-members, at cost of £40 and £60 respectively. Attendance will attract CPD points. This is an ideal opportunity to meet fellow fraud professionals in your area and to hear first hand from the Fraud Review team on Governments fight against fraud.

This seminar is designed to equip the Fraud Examiner with all the basic tools of the trade. Experienced fraud detection professionals will cover a range of subjects in some detail: You can expect a thorough briefing on recent changes in the law, as well as an insight into how to achieve a successful outcome when conducting investigative interviews, including those under caution. The sessions either side of lunch will cover implementing and managing confidential disclosure lines, as a means of encouraging employees to come forward with information about suspected internal fraud, and how technology can be used in the successful detection of fraud. The afternoon will build on this to explore how to identify fraudsters within a company, and the surveillance equipment and techniques, and the laws that govern their use, which may be used to identify such individuals.

Ed Gibson is the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Ltd, in the UK. His primary role is to serve as an advisor to Microsoft’s customers, and the public, on the work Microsoft is doing to improve the security of its products.

This role comes on the heels of his retirement from a 20-year career as a Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where he was a recognised expert in investigating complex, international money laundering schemes, asset identification and confiscation, and intellectual property theft.

From 2000-05, Mr. Gibson was assigned to the FBI’s Legal Attaché office, US Embassy London, responsible for all FBI cyber, hi-tech, cyber-terrorism, and infrastructure investigations in the UK. His leadership resulted in the creation of a model cyber program adopted by all Legal Attaché offices around the world.

Previously a corporate lawyer, while assigned to the US Embassy, he qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales, and completed a two-year computing program at Oxford University. He is a Member of the Board of the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community Safety, in England.Ed Gibson’s talk will cover organised crime, bots, botnets, social engineering, phishing, vishing, pharming, spam and more.

He will be speaking over a 3 course lunch, to include half a bottle of wine, at Octave8, (27-29 Endell Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9BA Tel: 020 7836 4616), a West End Jazz Club which the ACFE has used successfully a number of times before and which has been hired exclusively for the event. The lunch is open to both members and non-members, at cost of £40 and £60 respectively. Attendance will attract CPD points..

IIR's Annual Fraud World conference has become the largest 3-day conference and workshop of its kind in Europe.

In recognition of this fact we are delighted that this year the ACFE‘s European Fraud Conference will be joining IIR in partnership for Fraud World 2006.

The National Audit Office scruitinises public spending on behalf of Parliament, and is independent of Government. It audits the accounts of all central government departments and agencies, and reports to Parliament on the effectiveness with which they have used public money.

Graham Miller is a director of the NAO, and the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO). As such he oversees all activity relating to anti-money laundering and internal audit reports. His talk will look at his role in some depth, describing both what he does and what he does not do in relation to fraud and corruption in the public sector, how he and his team engage with auditees, and the scope of his department’s international involvement. Graham is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute in the UK. He is a member of the Technical Group of the Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations; the INTOSAI Task Force on the Fight Against International Money Laundering; and the INTOSAI Task Force on the Audit of International Institutions.

Graham will be speaking over a 3 course lunch, to include half a bottle of wine, at Octave8, (27-29 Endell Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9BA Tel: 020 7836 4616), a West End Jazz Club which has been hired exclusively for the event. The lunch is open to both members and non-members. There are a few places remaining, and attendance will attract CPD points. An application form is attached (please note the request for a vegetarian main course).

High-tech Investigative Tools - ACFE UK Event 8 CPD Hours

This seminar draws together experts from the field of high tech investigation, working in both the public and the private sphere. You will have the opportunity to see practical demonstrations of physical surveillance equipment, and the latest computer and laboratory techniques available to the modern investigator. The days seminar, which will carry 8 CPD hours, will cover everything from surveillance and video enhancement through to the tracking of documents and the forensic examination of questioned materials. This programme will be of interest to all anti-fraud practitioners, and will provide a comprehensive insight into the many tools available.

Followed by

Notice of Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of the UK Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners will be held immediately after this events commencing at 4.30pm. Please note that attendance is only open to current fully paid up members.

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In 2005, the e-Crime Congress revealed that while partnerships between law enforcement agencies continue to improve and show success, the frequency and reach of

online crime had expanded alarmingly, as organised criminal gangs cooperated across national borders. Displaying remarkable efficiency and speed gangs can deliver a profit margin on their internet-focused crimes that legitimate business can never expect to equal. The online success of organised crime is, in turn, providing the fuel that drives other criminal ventures from paedophile pornography to identity theft and drugs trafficking.

The e-Crime Congress 2006 will seek to challenge conventional attitudes on e-Crime and examine how business, government and law enforcement can continue to work together in order to tackle a threat that undermines public confidence in the internet as a viable and secure commercial medium for the future.

AFCE Members are eligible for special delegate rate of £700 + VAT. (normal cost £895 +VAT). ACFE Members wishing to participate at this event must contact Howard James, identify themselves as ACFE UK members and provide their membership ID number.

The Law, practice and procedure governing the prosecution of serious fraud had undergone significant change in the last year and further changes are expected in 2006. With fraud cases becoming larger and more complicated, legislation is also increasing in volume and complexity.

This one-day conference has been specifically designed to support you, the busy fraud professional, faced with the challenge of multiple and parallel changes in the law. It will bring you up to date on the critical recent and proposed developments in this field.

This social event replaces our July 7th 2005 Lunch club that we were forced to cancel on the day of the terrorist bombings in London.

Our original speaker Michael Deats has now moved on but his Unit has kindly agreed to provided Michael Ford the acting Deputy Head as a speaker. This Unit is currently responsibility for combating serious and organised hi-tech crime within the United Kingdom but is undergoing restructuring to become the Serious Organised Crime Agency.