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    Forensic Audit Movie Report

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    Frank Abagnale committed several types of fraud including identity theft, forgery of documents and checks, and passing bad checks. He stole the identity of an airline pilot, doctor, lawyer, and secret service agent by forging licenses, IDs, and academic transcripts. He was able to commit check fraud by forging bank checks and setting up a fake check printing operation in France. Stronger controls are needed to prevent such frauds, as committing fraud was made easier by emerging technologies and lack of oversight that allowed controls to be bypassed.

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    Frank Abagnale committed several types of fraud including identity theft, forgery of documents and checks, and passing bad checks. He stole the identity of an airline pilot, doctor, lawyer, and secret service agent by forging licenses, IDs, and academic transcripts. He was able to commit check fraud by forging bank checks and setting up a fake check printing operation in France. Stronger controls are needed to prevent such frauds, as committing fraud was made easier by emerging technologies and lack of oversight that allowed controls to be bypassed.

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    Frank Abagnale committed several types of fraud including identity theft, forgery of documents and checks, and passing bad checks. He stole the identity of an airline pilot, doctor, lawyer, and secret service agent by forging licenses, IDs, and academic transcripts. He was able to commit check fraud by forging bank checks and setting up a fake check printing operation in France. Stronger controls are needed to prevent such frauds, as committing fraud was made easier by emerging technologies and lack of oversight that allowed controls to be bypassed.

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    Forensic Audit Movie Report

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    Frank Abagnale committed several types of fraud including identity theft, forgery of documents and checks, and passing bad checks. He stole the identity of an airline pilot, doctor, lawyer, and secret service agent by forging licenses, IDs, and academic transcripts. He was able to commit check fraud by forging bank checks and setting up a fake check printing operation in France. Stronger controls are needed to prevent such frauds, as committing fraud was made easier by emerging technologies and lack of oversight that allowed controls to be bypassed.

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    ASSIGNMENT 2

    Forensic audit

    Submitted to
    Mr. Bilal Naeem

    Submitted by
    Muhammad Abdullah Jan
    S2017314005

    Date: march 26, 2020


    “CATCH ME IF YOU CAN”
    What frauds were committed?
    Based on the information provided in the movie, Frank Abagnale committed following
    frauds
     Identity fakery
     Forgery of documents
     Use of bounced checks
     Use of fake checks
     Printing of fake checks
     Forgery of checks

    How the frauds were committed?


    Identity Fakery
    Airline pilot
    Frank started his fake identities with faking as a pilot in Pan Am airlines. To gain the
    knowledge, Abagnale posed as a student researching a project about aviation to meet with Pan
    Am executives and learn everything he could about both the company and the industry. For
    doing so he needed three things. Firstly, he needed the uniform. Getting a uniform wasn't simple.
    He called Pan Am's purchasing agent, claimed his hotel lost his uniform, and visited Pan Am's
    uniform supplier. He gave the company a fake employee ID number and was on his way.
    Secondly he needed an employee id card. Abagnale conned 3M into making him a Pan
    Am ID, telling the company he needed to present a sample badge to airline colleagues. Once 3M
    made the badge, complete with his picture, Abagnale bought a model Pan Am plane, stripped it
    of its logo, and plunked the logo onto his newly made ID.
    Finally he needed an FAA license which he faked using the expired FAA license given to
    him by the executive of Pan Am during his visit as a student.
    He used this identity to encash forged checks without raising any suspicion and also to
    keep traveling for free to keep moving away from authorities.

    Secret service agent

    When he was acting as a pilot, the FBI agent almost caught him but when he arrived his
    hotel room he acted as a secret service agent and told the FBI agent that he had captured the
    conman and escaped.
    Doctor
    After being an airline pilot, when he came to know that authorities were looking for him,
    he moved to a new place and in apartment rental form he wrote his occupation doctor. He
    befriended a doctor in his building and started visiting him and hanging out with him in the
    hospital. There, he also befriended with other staff members and finally applied for the job of
    intern supervisor using forged degree and other documents.

    Lawyer

    While working in hospital, he started dating an intern whose father was a state's attorney
    general. Through him he got all the information he needed for the field. Despite never attending
    law school, it only took three attempts for Abagnale to pass the bar exam in Louisiana 

    It didn't hurt that state laws let him take the test as many times as necessary. He was hired
    as a legal assistant in the corporate law division of the state's attorney general's office.

    Forgery of Documents
    To fake his identities, he also made fake transcripts and other documents. For example, to
    get the job of intern supervisor in hospital, he made a fake transcript of Harvard University.

    Check Frauds
    He began to commit check fraud when he ran away from his home. In the beginning, to
    pay his expenses he started paying people by checks form his own account which was empty and
    all those checks bounced.

    When he started having problems with this, he began to use counterfeit checks. He forged
    the name, amount and account numbers on his own checks and started encashing them. But he
    faced an issue as he was a teenager and people were reluctant to accept checks of someone else’s
    name from him. So he turned to the fake identities. During this period, he befriended a cashier at
    a bank and gained the knowledge of all the details of a check that differ an original check from a
    fake one.

    Later he bought an official type writer in an auction and started making totally fake
    checks and also pasted Pan Am’s logo o it which he got from the Pan Am’s model airplanes
    available in market.

    He also continued doing the same during his period in hospital and attorney general’s
    office.
    After this, he bought machines and set up the whole fake check printing press in France
    and printed a lot of fake checks and kept on using those checks around the world while still
    acting as pilot.

    Conclusion
    Based on the movie and the video clip, it comes to the light that committing fraud was
    very easy at that time but it has become even easier due to the availability of more technology.
    So stronger controls need to be placed to avoid all such frauds. In speech, Abagnale also pointed
    out that such frauds only take place if someone in the victim party is either doing what he is not
    supposed to do or not doing something that he is supposed to do. Which states that making sure
    that controls are not bypassed is also very important.

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