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Fraud Basics
Essential fundamentals for fraud analysts - what fraud is, common types, SQL skills, criminal psychology, and investigation basics
Fraud 101: What Is Fraud?
Absolute basics for someone who has never looked at fraud: what is fraud, how is it different from other crimes, and why does it matter
7 min readCommon Fraud Types Every Analyst Should Know
The most frequent fraud types you will encounter as a fraud analyst: identity theft, payment fraud, account takeover, and business fraud
12 min readSQL Crash Course for Fraud Analysts
Essential SQL skills for investigating fraud cases: learn to query transaction data, analyze patterns, and gather evidence
19 min readIntro to Criminal Infrastructure
Understanding the underground fraud economy: dark web markets, criminal tools, and how fraud operations are organized
7 min readFraud Basics: Criminal Innovation Through History
How criminals exploit new technology: from ancient insurance scams to AI fraud, understanding patterns that help predict future attacks
12 min readFraud Operations & Metrics
How fraud teams measure success: false positive rates, precision/recall tradeoffs, approval rate impact, queue management, and the KPIs that matter
13 min readInvestigation Walkthrough: Your First Fraud Investigation
Walk through a new analyst's first real case, applying the gather-assess-decide-document framework to a card testing attack
10 min readCapstone: Anatomy of a Multi-Stage Attack
A full investigation spanning email compromise, social engineering, wire fraud, and crypto laundering, showing how fraud domains interconnect
11 min read