Fraud Finder - May 2015 (VBA/Excel) The amount of fraud sales that were occurring for a company was out of control. There were dozens of sales per

month that were customer fraud, and each sale cost the company an average of $700 each. Some employees were

also committing fraud in this bad atmosphere. Identifying these sales after the fact could not prevent the profit loss,

but it was able to enlighten the sales staff about imminent fraud dangers. A program was created to analyze data

from the point of sale system for common patterns found in fraud sales. A point system was developed for each

factor, and the higher the resulting score for a sale meant the higher the fraud potential. Checking hundreds of

sales per day would take many hours without a program. This program identified only the sales that needed to

be checked (about 1% of total sales) in seconds.

This program was made in Excel, but there is no Excel interface to it. When you open the workbook, it validates that other

workbooks are open. The “Create Fraud Report” function would take information from external workbooks, and create this

custom report of fraud potential. The information on the report had to be blurred to protect propriety.