BFA #001 | The #1 Mistake Fraud Fighters Make

Hey hey Fraud Fighters! - Brian here

We're finally kicking off Bad Fraud Advice. Can't believe I just hit publish. It's a surreal moment and more work has gone into creating and launching this newsletter than I thought possible. Who would've thought? Honestly, not me.

Let's talk some fraud.

In today's edition, we break down the #1 Mistake Fraud Fighters make

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As a fraud fighter, I would dread the times of entering into a meeting with Leadership just to know they have no idea what I even do and never give me enough time to teach them.

How was I supposed to actually drive impact if no one knew what I did or I couldn't get their attention to listen long enough. These meetings were a start of an opportunity and figuring out how to simplify complex topics - like fraud - and find ways to catch their attention to listen long enough.

So what's the #1 mistake fraud fighters make that are holding their careers back?

Staying silent...

We've all been in this situation before. We're hired to be the fraud expert and protect the company and customers from fraud and abuse.

We know how to fix the problem. Obviously we'll get support and resources to actually solve the problem we were hired to fix. Right?....Right??

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Does this sound familiar?

Package a beautiful business case.

Get all stakeholders together.

Present problem AND solution.

........

Get pushback.

Told what would be a better "solution"

Take the bad fraud advice.

And just accept it.

A lot of fraud fighters naturally are reserved and quiet and we prefer head down work.

Believe it or not, that's me too.​

So when we receive the slightest pushback or we don't pursue an idea because we just know (*assume*) that engineering or product is going to shut it down.

It's exhausting.

That's why most take the rejection and just get back to work.

Not anymore.

​2023 is the year of raising the voice of the Fraud community.

Together we will find our voices.

We have a lot of content planned out for this year and we are just getting started.

See you again next Friday in your inbox.

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Brian

"Fraudsters work together, so it only makes sense us fraud fighters do too!"