Identity Theft Recognition and Response This training module includes a DVD slide presentation containing investigative techniques, information about intelligence and evidence gathering, and actual case studies. Detective Ed Hewitt, a seasoned fraud detective, provides the voice-over. The VHS videotape contains interviews with I.D. thieves and trains students about I.D. theft organizational structures. The workbook, written by retired fraud detective Mark Coffey, completes the learning experience with specific do's and don'ts about conducting investigations, evidence-gathering procedures, and presenting I.D. theft cases to prosecutors. To enhance the educational experience, we include two hard-working bonus guides by Judith Collins, Ph.D., and Sandra K. Hoffman: Identity Theft First Responder Manual for Criminal Justice Professionals and Identity Theft Victims' Assistance Guide.

Terrorism This training module includes a DVD slide presentation with over 100 slides and voice-over by Retired FBI Senior Executive Dennis M. Lormel. Through the workbook and slide presentation, students will learn detailed information about terrorist groups, including how they are financed, the role of money laundering in funding terror, and investigative techniques. The material includes how terrorists select their targets, recruit new terrorists, and use fraud to finance their mission. Steven Emerson, one of the country's leading authorities on terrorism, is interviewed on the video. The video includes Emerson's hidden camera tapes of terrorist operatives in the United States discussing their objectives. This module is a must-have for every law enforcement officer who realizes that homeland security starts with him.

Financial Exploitation of Seniors Seniors are prime targets of con artists. Oftentimes, seniors have significant assets, are lonely, and want to improve their standard of living by earning high returns on their investments. These circumstances make them easy targets and vulnerable to swindlers. Judith McGee, LHD, CFP®, a widely respected financial planner and financial fraud expert, teaches the myriad ways seniors can be exploited by family members, caregivers, and con artists. Her slide presentation with voice-over and her workbook are ready to use by students or trainers. The educational experience is enhanced by interviews with perpetrators and victims of financial fraud. This module includes investigative techniques and tips on how to prepare evidence for prosecution.

Fraud Against Seniors This comprehensive module includes significant information about many schemes targeting seniors, from telemarketing scams, mail theft, theft on the Internet, home repairs, and auto repairs to door-to-door hustlers and sweetheart swindlers. Whitlock and Coffey discuss the worldview held by many senior citizens and the unique difficulties sometimes encountered investigating fraud against seniors. Victims frequently are uncooperative, or they may not remember evidentiary elements of the crime. Investigative techniques, including establishing a document trail, are discussed. Fraud against Seniors is a perfect companion for module three: Financial Exploitation of Seniors. The DVD slide presentation and workbook offer students information about interviewing suspects, establishing a pattern of fraud, and creating a rock-solid case for prosecution. Whitlock interviews Crime Prevention Officer Tim Dickerson on the video, which contains real-life reports of seniors taken for a ride by unscrupulous swindlers.

Street Cons From classic cons that never disappear such as the pigeon drop, Jamaican switch, and bank examiner scheme to charity scams, diversion cons, and sob stories, street scams are ever present. While some victims may lose only $5 to a phony panhandler, others may give $500 for what turns out to be a brick-in-the-box scam. Still others have been known to turn over tens of thousands of dollars to a phony relative or charity scam. The DVD slide presentation with voice-over, video interviews, and workbook provide information about how these cons are perpetrated as well as important do's and don'ts for investigators.

Investment Fraud Crimeline's look into financial investment fraud includes affinity group fraud, boiler room schemes, oil and gas schemes, Ponzi schemes, Nigerian scams, investment seminar schemes, online investment fraud, fraudulent viatical settlements, and scams by phony financial planners and other advisors who use their positions of trust to swindle their clients. This module includes a DVD slide presentation with voice-over, videotaped interviews of experts and victims, and a workbook. The workbook contains a special section about the role of a police officer in uncovering and investigating investment fraud. Every investigator and student of criminal justice needs this exciting and informative module.

Cyber Crime Detective Ed Hewitt teaches criminal justice students and seasoned law enforcement professionals the essential elements of Internet fraud. The DVD slide presentation, video interviews with undercover footage, and workbook give the student a comprehensive understanding of phony Web sites, Trojan horses, spyware, credit card fraud on the Internet, phishing, hacking, and the use of spam to market worthless drugs and other products. Hewitt includes practical techniques and tips for investigators. Of significant interest to the investigator are the investigative problems associated with victims and perpetrators being in multiple jurisdictions, oftentimes in different countries.

Business Fraud (Part I) One of the most vulnerable targets of con artists is a business. Embezzlement, fraudulent conspiracies, Internet theft, or other types of business fraud can devastate a business. This module offers investigators information on forensic accounting. Darrell D. Dorrell is one of the most sought after forensic accountants in the United States. A professional expert witness in trials, he is often referred to as the expert's expert. The DVD slide presentation, videotaped interviews, and extensive workbook cover forensic accounting methodology, including criminal investigation processes and forensic accounting techniques. We've also included a bonus: The 2004 Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud and Abuse by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The report is based on 508 occupational fraud cases that were reported by the Certified Fraud Examiners who investigated them.

Business Fraud (Part II) This training module, created by Dave Ostertag, is one that every bank fraud investigator and law enforcement investigator should complete. A retired US Postal Inspector and renowned expert on credit card fraud, Ostertag presents a concise educational experience about bank fraud. He includes investigative information about account takeovers, skimmers, telemarketing fraud, laundering, counterfeit cards, and employee conspiracies. The workbook, DVD slide presentation, and video interview include insightful information about various types of fraud by consumers, merchant fraud, and information that may be helpful in obtaining documents and information from a bank.

Medical Scams Medical fraud is pervasive and plays off the vanity and fears of its victims. Many times, these cases may culminate in death. This module includes a videotaped interview with U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona about medical fraud. Chuck Whitlock's book Mediscams serves as the workbook in this module. Whitlock's slide presentation, his video containing an undercover investigation, and MediScams workbook include information about Medicare and Medicaid fraud, phony medical products, unlicensed physicians, alternative medicine scams, phony cures, and a wealth of resource information available to an investigator facing the challenges of a medical fraud case. Coming soon: An additional workbook and a DVD slide presentation by Stephen Barrett, MD, Board Chairman of Quackwatch, Inc., and Vice President of the National Council Against Health Fraud.

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