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Fraud Awareness

The AOC OIG maintains an annual training requirement accessed through the AOC Learn portal for all AOC employees on:

  • How to identify fraud, waste and abuse
  • Role in preventing and reporting fraud, waste and abuse
  • Proper government property disposal
  • Examples of common fraud types like:
    • Contract fraud
    • False Claims Act
    • Workers’ compensation fraud
    • Time and attendance fraud
  • The components of the Fraud Triangle
    • Pressure: financial or non-financial issues that may provide incentive to commit fraud
      • such as high medical bills, past-due accounts, addiction to alcohol or gambling, unrealistic work expectations
    • Opportunity: ability to commit fraud such as access to assets and/or information
    • Rationalization: employee’s self-justification that their fraudulent actions are reasonable or permissible
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Fraud Triangle