The Daily Citizen, Dalton, GA

May 7, 2008

Chattanooga fraud detection seminar planned


CHATTANOOGA — T he Chattanooga Area Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Chattanooga Bar Association is presenting the 2008 Fraud Seminar: WHAT IS THE TRUTH? An Examination of Deception within the Interview Process, with Don Rabon., on May 20th at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

This seminar will benefit anyone who would be put at a disadvantage by deception, including auditors, attorneys, human resources, loan officers, administrators, managers, investigators, security personnel and counselors.

Don Rabon recently retired as the Deputy Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy (Western Campus). He is the former manager of the Investigation Center of the North Carolina Justice Academy and the North Carolina Department of Justice. For more than 30 years, Mr. Rabon has been a much sought after speaker and instructor in the areas of Corporate Security Operations, Interviewing, Rapport Building, Interrogation, Persuasion, Detecting, Deception, Investigations and Investigative and Discourse Analysis.

Participants of his courses have included the United States Secret Service, the Behavioral Science Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Quantico, VA, the U.S. Army C.I.D., the U.S. Army Intelligence-Counterintelligence, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mr. Rabon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from East Tennessee State University and is the author of Interviewing and Interrogation and Investigative Discourse Analysis.

The luncheon speaker will be Federal Judge Curtis L Collier. This seminar qualifies for both CLE and CPE educational credits.

Registrations are available online at www.acfechattanooga.org. For more information, contact ACFE Chattanooga Area Chapter President, Bill Acuff, 423-756-7100, ext 329 or billacuff@decosimo.com.

Decosimo Forensic Accounting is sponsoring the speaker. Additional support is provided by Lattimore, Black, Morgan and Cain, P.C. and First Tennessee Bank. Registration fees include continental breakfast and lunch.



About Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners is the world's premier provider of anti-fraud training and education. The Chattanooga Chapter, together with nearly 45,000 other members the ACFE, is reducing business fraud worldwide and inspiring public confidence in the integrity and objectivity within the profession.