Fraud Trivia

You are an employee in the procurement team in your department. Your son has just started up a business selling supplies. A few months go by and his business has not been doing well. He has not been able to gain or retain customers. Desperate, your son reaches out to you for help in getting a contract with your department. You explain that it would be a conflict of interest. He tells you that his business will go bankrupt without your help. What do you do?

• You bypass the department's procurement procedures and award his business the contract for supplies.

• You provide your son with some information to help him design his bid in a way that would help him win the contract.

• You tell your colleague about how good your son's business is, so that they would award him the contract to avoid conflict of interest.

• You tell him that you cannot in good faith award his business a contract but you provide him with guidance on how he can improve his business.

Employees should _____ accept gifts from suppliers, vendors or contractors!

You receive an email from a long-term external client. It says, “to receive payment, you will need to update your profile information.” and a link is provided to the client’s website. The email appears to be from the client and has a similar signature. The information requested consists of the department's information, project authority, your personal information, such as date of birth, address, position title, etc. What do you do?

• Reply to the email asking for more information.

• As it is from a big client, you click the link and fill out the information.

• Inform your supervisor and complete the information together.

• Inform your supervisor and send the email to the department SPAM/POURRIEL inbox.

Draw what comes to mind when you think of a fraudster.

The payment an employee receives from a company for preferential treatment is called _______.

You received a virtual meeting request from your Chief Financial Officer. At first glance, the email appeared correct. When you entered the meeting, the CFO is on camera and speaks to you. The CFO asks you to provide sensitive information about a specific client through an online unsecured repository that is provided in the meeting, which you find odd. However, since the request is coming from the CFO, you believe it is something very important. What do you do?

• Seeking to impress the CFO and increase your chances of promotion, you inquire if there is any additional information they require and promptly provide it without hesitation.

• Send the information, no questions asked.

• As you find the request unusual, you take precaution to verify the email address and you share your concerns with your manager to ensure there is no suspicious activities involved.

• Ask the CFO some questions because you find it odd. The CFO gets angry and yells at you. So you send the information because you are scared of getting in trouble.

You are on a business trip in Orlando Florida for the department. You meet some new people there and they invite you to go to a theme park. Unfortunately, the theme park is quite expensive and you did not bring enough personal funds to pay the entrance fee. Your new acquaintances suggest you use your acquisition card from work and tell you not to ruin the day.

• You decide to reduce your spending of the acquisition card in another area to make up for this purchase.

• You convinced yourself that since you worked longer than your regular schedule unpaid that you deserve this purchase using the company acquisition card.

• Since the theme park tickets are not a business expense, you decide not to purchase the tickets.

• Not wanting to disappoint your new friends, you use your acquisition card to buy the park tickets.

_________ is when an employee conspires with another employee or external person to commit fraud.

Your team was granted overtime during year end. You noticed that one of your colleagues still left work at their normal work hours. One day, you overhear this colleague talk about how they are submitting overtime but not actually working the extra hours. What do you do?

• You collect evidence of your colleague leaving early and expose them in a meeting.

• Since you have worked longer hours unpaid before, you believe you are entitled to free overtime pay too.

• Share this information with your manager, so that they can look into the matter.

• You have no evidence, so there is nothing you can do.

Abusing your position for personal gain is called ________ __ ________.