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Fraud and financial misconduct expose businesses to serious financial, legal, and reputational harm. Inner Valor’s Certified Fraud Examiners (CFEs), accredited by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), deliver expert prevention, detection, and investigation services to protect against internal and external threats. Whether strengthening controls or responding to suspected fraud, our team ensures your organization remains secure.
Threats often originate from within—trusted employees or partners exploiting vulnerabilities in systems and processes. Common schemes include embezzlement, ghost payrolls, asset misappropriation, employee theft, intellectual property misappropriation, and falsified transactions. These risks can quietly erode company value over time.
Inner Valor’s CFEs conduct discreet, intelligence-driven investigations that integrate forensic accounting, metadata analysis, digital attribution techniques, and behavioral profiling. From tracing stolen intellectual property and uncovering internal collusion to mapping metadata across anonymized platforms, our team exposes misconduct, identifies responsible parties, and delivers the evidentiary foundation needed to support legal action and strategic risk mitigation.
Our services include:
Fraud prevention demands proactive monitoring and strategic insight. Inner Valor’s Certified Fraud Examiners lead discreet internal investigations to identify, address, and neutralize fraudulent activity—before it escalates into financial or reputational damage.
Through our confidential investigation process, we:
Fraud doesn’t just cost money—it costs trust, credibility, and opportunity. Inner Valor helps you detect risk early, respond decisively, and protect what matters most.
Reach out to Inner Valor today to explore how our Certified Fraud Examiners can strengthen your defenses against fraud and corporate misconduct.
A global manufacturer of pouch-based beverage delivery systems engaged Inner Valor to investigate suspected trade secret theft and patent infringement by a former senior engineer. The individual was believed to have misappropriated confidential engineering data shortly before departing to join a newly formed competitor backed by a major industry player.
Over multiple investigative phases, Inner Valor uncovered that the former employee had copied tens of thousands of proprietary files—including technical schematics, vendor information, and design plans—to an external drive. Forensic analysis also revealed attempts to cover up the unauthorized transfer. Within days of the employee’s exit, the competitor launched operations and began marketing a nearly identical pouch-filling machine—an endeavor that typically takes years to develop.
Inner Valor traced key evidence linking the misappropriated technology to public demonstrations, patent filings, and direct admissions by representatives of the competitor. Investigators also identified former colleagues who had followed the employee to the new company, further suggesting coordinated misconduct. Surveillance at trade expos confirmed that the infringing machine was being promoted internationally. The investigation revealed a deliberate effort to fast-track product development using stolen intellectual property.
This intelligence supported the client’s legal case, which was filed in a U.S. federal court, alleging intellectual property theft, breach of contract, and unlawful commercialization. The client ultimately prevailed in the lawsuit, securing more than $200 million in damages. Inner Valor’s investigation played a critical role in uncovering the misconduct, supporting international litigation, and protecting the client’s market leadership in high-value manufacturing technology.
A European software firm engaged Inner Valor to investigate a series of defamatory and anonymous email campaigns that were harming its reputation and undermining relationships with key value-added resellers (VARs). The messages accused the company of mismanagement, unethical conduct, and poor service—suggesting a coordinated effort to damage credibility and shift reseller loyalties.
Inner Valor launched a multi-phase investigation. In Phase I, forensic analysis of the emails revealed they were sent through anonymized platforms, including Gmail, Hotmail, and TOR, designed to obscure the sender’s identity. Though direct attribution was initially inconclusive, indicators pointed to an internal source or someone with privileged access. Metadata patterns and timing suggested involvement by someone familiar with internal operations and partners.
In Phase II, a targeted digital attribution operation was executed using custom survey links embedded with forensic tracking scripts. Distributed under the pretext of a partner satisfaction survey, these links captured valuable metadata such as IP addresses, device configurations, browser types, and VPN usage. The resulting analysis confirmed that a specific VAR had engaged in the campaign, aided by a current employee who shared internal information, violated confidentiality, and potentially forwarded highly sensitive corporate data.
Overlapping digital fingerprints—including shared IP addresses and identical browser-VPN configurations—provided strong evidence of collaboration. Through a layered investigation combining cyber forensics, metadata analysis, and behavioral profiling, Inner Valor identified the primary actors. The intelligence was compiled for legal and disciplinary action, enabling the client to neutralize the threat and protect its brand reputation and partner network integrity.
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