Consumer Fraud
Overview
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Description
As a Certified Fraud Examiner and an anti-fraud expert, your community looks to you for guidance related to fraud. This course will provide you with an increased awareness and understanding of common consumer fraud schemes. Additionally, Consumer Fraud will provide you with resources and remedies to detect, deter, report and prevent these schemes – enabling you to better protect yourself and your community from becoming victims.
Schemes Covered Include:
- Entrepreneurial and work-at-home opportunities
- E-Commerce and online auction
- Debt and loan
- Telecommunications and telemarketing
- Health and medical
Key Takeaways:
- Ways to protect yourself and others from becoming victims of consumer fraud schemes
- Techniques used to commit consumer fraud schemes
- Effects of consumer fraud on consumers
- Trends and statistics on consumer fraud
Prerequisites
None
You Will Learn How To:
Recognize characteristics of consumer fraud schemes and the perpetrators
Identify consumer fraud schemes conducted through the Internet
Recall techniques used to commit consumer fraud schemes
Determine ways in which consumers can avoid becoming victims of consumer fraud schemes
Distinguish business and consumer traits that might lead to fraud
Table of Contents
| Lesson 1 | Consumer Fraud Overview |
|---|---|
| Lesson 2 | Consumer Fraud Delivery Methods |
| Lesson 3 | Online Methods Used to Obtain Consumer Data |
| Lesson 4 | Elder Fraud |
| Lesson 5 | Entrepreneurial Schemes |
| Lesson 6 | Advance-Fee Schemes |
| Lesson 7 | Credit Card Fraud Schemes |
| Lesson 8 | Consumer Debt and Loan Schemes |
| Lesson 9 | Mortgage Fraud Schemes |
| Lesson 10 | Telecommunications and Telemarketing Schemes |
| Lesson 11 | E-Commerce Schemes |
| Lesson 12 | Online Auction Fraud Schemes |
| Lesson 13 | Travel and Vacation Schemes |
| Lesson 14 | Lifestyle Schemes |
| Lesson 15 | Merchandising and Holiday Shopping Schemes |
| Lesson 16 | Educational Development Schemes |
| Lesson 17 | Collectibles Fraud Schemes |
| Lesson 18 | Health and Medical Fraud Schemes |
| Lesson 19 | Automotive Schemes |
| Lesson 20 | Investment Schemes |
| Lesson 21 | Other Consumer Fraud Schemes |
| Lesson 22 | Current Trends and Statistics |
| Conclusion |
CPE Information
| CPE Credit: | 10 |
|---|---|
| NASBA Information: | Auditing |
| Advanced Preparation: | None |
| Last Updated: | November 2023 |
| Delivery Method: | QAS Self-Study |
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CPE Credit
Please note: To be eligible for CPE credit, you must complete the final exam within one year of purchase date. You may only claim CPE credit for a course once.
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Features:
- 24/7 access to courses through your Internet browser
- Save time and quickly earn CPE credits with instant access, grading and printable certificate
- The flexibility to start or stop a course and pick-up right where you left off
- No additional shipping fees
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System Requirements:
- Internet access: High-speed connection recommended
- Speakers required for video sound
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org/.
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