I think Elizabeth Holmes might have started out as a righteous perpetrator. She wanted to create this technology so that people wouldn't have to go and have vials and vials of blood taken when they just need to go to the hospital. But she really did, I believe, now it went sideways real quick. The whole idea of fake it till you make it came from a con man who was going and telling people just wear a nice suit. People will listen to you if they look good, no matter whether what you're saying makes sense or not.
Fool Me Once author Kelly Richmond Pope explains how fraud became a trillion-dollar industry and helps us avoid becoming its latest victims.
What We Discuss with Kelly Richmond Pope:
- What types of people commit fraud, and what — beyond simple greed — tends to motivate them?
- What is the fraud triangle, and how does it explain the factors that contribute to the occurrence of occupational fraud or white-collar crime?
- Why fraud seems more common and more severe these days than ever before.
- The multifarious faces of fraud, the criminals that perpetrate them, and their typical marks.
- How businesses and individuals can avoid becoming the next victims of this trillion-dollar industry.
- And much more...
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