Cotton & Company has compiled a list of reported fraud schemes related to Pandemic Response Programs. The list has been sorted two ways:
By three major categories:
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- COVID-19 Schemes
- Cares Act Schemes
- Payroll Protection Program Schemes
By the ACFE’s COVID-19 Benchmarking Report Categories:
- Bribery and Corruption
- Cyber Fraud
- Employee Embezzlement
- Financial Statement Fraud
- Fraud by Vendors and Sellers
- Health Care Fraud
- Identity Theft
- Insurance Fraud
- Loan and Bank Fraud
- Payment Fraud
- Unemployment Fraud
Crowd-Sourcing
If you identify any schemes or variations of schemes that are not on these lists, please send that information, including citations to sources, to dcotton@cottoncpa.com.