{"id":75,"date":"2017-10-13T14:17:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T21:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:43:33","slug":"fraud","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/foreign-entities\/fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraud Indicators Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has created a <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.usaid.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2018-10\/OIG-Fraud-Prevention-and-Compliance-Handbook-103018.pdf\">Fraud Indicators<\/a> (pdf) guide that can help you detect and address incidences of deception related to government contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Approaches used to defraud the government<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Conducting activities covertly or completely hidden from view.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conducting activities in the open, completely obvious to all, but disguised to appear as if they are part of normal operations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fraud or negligence?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The intent to defraud the government (or others) must be present to classify the activity as \u201cfraud\u201d rather than \u201cnegligence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the guide provides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Beginning on page 30, the guide offers the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Examples and details of possible fraudulent activities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Suggestions for monitoring and auditing questionable activities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Detailed lists of fraud indicators and schemes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Warning signs of fraud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has created a Fraud Indicators (pdf) guide that can help you detect and address incidences of deception related to government contracts. Approaches used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4524,"featured_media":0,"parent":44,"menu_order":1000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10717,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/10717"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}