Fraud Intelligence
How fear feeds CEO fraud
Britta Bohlinger MA, BSc (Hons), CFE (bb@risikoklar.org) is based in Berlin, Germany. She founded RisikoKlár (https://risikoklar.org) in Iceland, a not for profit organisation that aims to educate and empower individuals and organisations to understand and manage risk.
Fear is widely acknowledged to be a
powerful human motivator. Indeed,
Britta Bohlinger
argues that it is part of the wider social and economic context to the social
engineering phenomenon of CEO fraud, and that standard preventive measures are
too narrow in their focus.