“It is an opportunistic infection that bursts forth when greed meets the possibility of deception.” P12 Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation, Howard Silverstone,
Story from the U.S. Department of Justice
Two entrepreneurs convinced an investor to hand over a million and a half dollars to produce a music festival that they knew would never happen. “Morris and Kelly created several false and fraudulent concert performance contracts forging the signatures of the music recording artists. Morris also created false and fraudulent email accounts that he used to pose as if the music recording artists themselves had sent the signed contracts to Kelly and himself. Additionally, during a video call with the victim, Morris and Kelly had an accomplice pose as J.B. to trick the victim into believing that J.B. had agreed to perform at the concert series.” https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/fake-concert-promoter-and-former-rapper-plead-guilty-135-million-fraud-scheme
There are many kinds of fraud. Often they are specific to the type of event. If you have examples, put them here. You don’t have to identify the event or place or time. Every story will help the event sector become more fair and honest.
Once case of corruption involved a sub-contracted security company that provided false time sheets to the main contractor, who then passed these on to the client for payment. Also involved in this case was the bribing of an employee of the client in charge of security and a fault found in the client’s procurement system.
This was a surprise to me as I had no idea there were ‘metal detecting’ events around the world. Participants pay to attend the event and are let loose on a fixed area of land. Metal detecting at a heritage site is illegal. But, it is suggested, that some people scan a heritage site at night in secret, find an object, then attend the metal detecting event and pretend to find it there. This gives the object a legal provenance and therefore it can be legally sold.