One of the Disadvantages of Benford's Law in Detecting Fraud

question 25

Multiple Choice

One of the disadvantages of Benford's law in detecting fraud is:

• A)potential suspects are more likely to know you are trying to detect fraud than if you use such detection techniques.
• B)it is very expensive to implement and use.
• C)that those cases with the lowest probabilities do not match Benford's law and may need further investigation.
• D)it only broadly identifies the possible existence of fraud;it fails to narrow possibilities to a manageable field of promising leads.

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