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Global Retail Theft Barometer Study Finds Shrink at Highest Levels Since 2007 | RCM Investigation & Associates
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RCM Investigation and Associates. Global Retail Theft Barometer Study Finds Shrink at Highest Levels Since 2007. October 19, 2011. The countries suffering the highest rate of shrink included India (2.38% of retail sales), Russia (1.74%) and Morocco (1.72%). The lowest rates of shrink were found in Taiwan (0.91%), Hong Kong SAR (0.95%), and Japan and Austria (both 1.04%). The US rate was 1.59%. From → Uncategorized. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). You are c...
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Telemarketers to Target Cell Phones | RCM Investigation & Associates
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RCM Investigation and Associates. Mobile Informational Call Act of 2011. Telemarketers to Target Cell Phones. October 11, 2011. A new bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to let businesses contact cell phone customers using an auto dialer, a move that highlights increasing regulatory attention on consumers’ shifting mobile use. Those in favor say passage of the bill would open an easy channel for companies to convey critical information to customers, such as flight cancellations, ...
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A Basic Premise – People Lie | RCM Investigation & Associates
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RCM Investigation and Associates. A Basic Premise – People Lie. November 4, 2011. It is a basic human instinct to lie to avoid consequences. We discover this around 3 years of age and it develops and spirals out of control from then on. Some people are really good liars and others not so much. But the one constant is that everybody does it to some extent. Here’s what we find interesting – even though cops know they are going to get lied to, every cop still hates it when it happens. If you know people are...
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Fraud and infidelity: A match made in heaven? | RCM Investigation & Associates
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RCM Investigation and Associates. Fraud and infidelity: A match made in heaven? January 30, 2012. What on earth do fraud and infidelity have in common? Quite a lot actually. While there may be no scientific studies available that analyze the correlation between financial fraud and infidelity, anecdotal evidence obtained while working in the field of fraud investigation for more than a decade suggests there is a correlation. It’s easy to see how the rationalization of dishonest behavior at work is transfe...
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THE POTENTIAL FOR ERROR IN FORENSIC DNA TESTING | RCM Investigation & Associates
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RCM Investigation and Associates. THE POTENTIAL FOR ERROR IN FORENSIC DNA TESTING. March 6, 2012. By William C. Thompson. The ability of criminals to neutralize or evade crime control technologies has been a persistent theme in the history of crime. There are anecdotal reports of criminals trying to throw investigators off the track by planting biological evidence. When such planting occurs, will the police be able to figure it out? William C. Thompson. From → Uncategorized. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Why We Don’t See the Fraud in Front of Our Faces | RCM Investigation & Associates
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RCM Investigation and Associates. Why We Don’t See the Fraud in Front of Our Faces. November 22, 2011. Why do smart people fall for huge fraud schemes? Optimism bias rears its happy head. When questioned by a newspaper reporter after the story broke, an FBI special agent who had lost money in the scheme said: I am at a loss to explain myself . We are professionally suspicious people. When we see a clown we think child molester. So how could we be taken in by this? The Guy Who Wrote the Book. That’s a gre...
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RCM Investigation and Associates. October 11, 2011. Telemarketers to Target Cell Phones. A new bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to let businesses contact cell phone customers using an auto dialer, a move that highlights increasing regulatory attention on consumers’ shifting mobile use. Those in favor say passage of the bill would open an easy channel for companies to convey critical information to customers, such as flight cancellations, data breaches, account changes, or frau...
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CA Limits Use of Credit in Employment Screening | RCM Investigation & Associates
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RCM Investigation and Associates. CA Limits Use of Credit in Employment Screening. December 20, 2011. California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 22 which limits the use of credit reports in the pre-employment screening process. The new law takes effect on Jan 1, 2012. California joins six other states that have passed similar legislation, although all of these laws do contain specific exceptions depending on the type of position or industry. Labor Code Section 1024.5. A position where the indiv...
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The False Confession | RCM Investigation & Associates
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RCM Investigation and Associates. Elicit a false confession. February 15, 2012. Although it is difficult, if not impossible, to estimate the number of false confessions nationwide, a review of one decade’s worth of murder cases in a single Illinois county found 247 instances in which the defendants’ self-incriminating statements were thrown out by the court or found by a jury to be insufficiently convincing for conviction. (. Conducted the investigation.). This often indicates an inability to appreciate ...
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Sexual Harassment: The Problem Has Not Gone Away | RCM Investigation & Associates
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RCM Investigation and Associates. The Problem Has Not Gone Away. Tuli v. Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Sexual Harassment: The Problem Has Not Gone Away. September 28, 2011. Unlike other types of discrimination and harassment, the number of claims for sexual harassment has been going down. In fact, in 2010 fewer sexual harassment charges were filed than at any time since 1992, when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission began tracking those claims. So that’s the good news. At a meeting, the departmen...
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