Quack doctors are medical impostors who pretend to professionally or publicly possess the skill, knowledge or qualifications of being a medical practitioner. This dangerous illegal practice of quack doctors can happen everywhere. One example is a woman in France posing as a doctor and claiming to be able to test Covid...
With a total loss of more than USD 3,6 billion in 2022, occupational fraud is categorized as the most expensive form of fraud. Moreover, with a total of 2,110 cases, this type of fraud is one of the most common in the world. The term “occupational fraud” refers to fraud committed...
The Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA) held its annual conference on September 14-15, 2021. Integrity Asia had the opportunity to attend this event virtually. At this annual conference, one of the interesting topics brought up was Criminal Record Checks in Europe: Navigating the Murky Waters of Article 10 by Mark...
Graduation season is an important moment for students. They rejoice by taking pictures and sharing them on social media to celebrate. However, behind this joy, fraudsters are lurking and targeting their pictures. Jisc, a UK-based non-profit educational digitalization company, warns university graduates to refrain from posting selfies with their diplomas on...
An owner and operator of nursing schools in Virginia and Florida was charged with plotting to sell fake transcripts and diplomas. The targets for selling their fake diplomas were nursing candidates who did not qualify for the board of nursing exams, licensed nurses, and nursing candidates enrolled in a Florida...
With thousands of people dying of overdoses every year, it is apparent that one of the world’s biggest persistent problems is drug use. In Indonesia’s mainstream media, we can see that artists, politicians, and even those who are in authority are caught using, buying, or in possession of illegal drugs. With...
Integrity Asia had the honor to be one of the guest speakers at Swiss Chamber Indonesia's (SwissCham) Human Capital Development (HCD) Sectoral Group's monthly meeting on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. In the virtual meeting attended by HR leaders from several of its member companies, SwissCham was represented by Vice Chairman of...
The Court check can be tedious and come with high risk of human error. In Indonesia, one district court has one Case Information System or called SIPP that records data of both civil and criminal cases. Currently, there are over 250 SIPPs in nation wide. Despite digitization and public access, the...
There are many forms of fraud in education, ranging from contract cheating, bribery, plagiarism, and falsifying acedemic credentials. Fake academic degrees are only a small part of the rampant spread of false academic credentials in Indonesia. The last case that was raised by the media was a forged post-graduate diploma...
The book written by Icelandic TV presenter, historian, translator, and writer Magnus Magnusson contains 16 case studies of fraud that gained the world’s attention in the 20th century. The sixteen case studies are divided into four chapters, which are Art Forgeries, Archeological Frauds, Secret Lives Impostors and Hoaxers, and Literally...
