The 10th ACFE Report to the Nations was published in August 20181. The 2018 report included statistics and other learnings pertaining to 2,690 occupational fraud cases from 125 countries (a total of 38 reports were received in relation to occupational fraud cases in Australia). The 2018 iteration had some interesting findings in relation to the ways in which fraud and corruption occur across 23 major industry categories. The report draws on the experience of more than 65,000 ACFE members around the world.
Fraudsters who were with their organisation longer stole twice as much (US$200,000 median loss where employee had > five years tenure compared with US$100,000 where employee had < five years tenure).