Comments on: For students and job seekers: Becoming a fraud investigator http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2008/12/21/becoming-a-fraud-investigator/ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:48:29 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Funny about Money http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2008/12/21/becoming-a-fraud-investigator/comment-page-1/#comment-179790 Funny about Money Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:38:00 +0000 http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/?p=3245#comment-179790 What an interesting site you have here! And what a neat career you selected. Some years ago one of the students I had the privilege of teaching was majoring in accountancy specifically so that he could become a forensic accountant. His goal was to land a job with the FBI, which (so he said) was hiring a fair number of such workers. I imagine the IRS would be a likely source of jobs, too. What about insurance companies? My son works for a major insurer as a claims adjuster; part of his job is to recognize when a claim appears to be fraudulent, although he is not an investigator. When he suspects fraud, he passes the case along to a different department. Do insurers hire forensic accountants, or do their investigators come from a different background? What an interesting site you have here! And what a neat career you selected.

Some years ago one of the students I had the privilege of teaching was majoring in accountancy specifically so that he could become a forensic accountant. His goal was to land a job with the FBI, which (so he said) was hiring a fair number of such workers.

I imagine the IRS would be a likely source of jobs, too.

What about insurance companies? My son works for a major insurer as a claims adjuster; part of his job is to recognize when a claim appears to be fraudulent, although he is not an investigator. When he suspects fraud, he passes the case along to a different department. Do insurers hire forensic accountants, or do their investigators come from a different background?

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