Fraud does not break in through the front door. It slips through segregated duties nobody checked, suppliers nobody verified, and alerts nobody was watching. We find those gaps before someone else does.
Most fraud thrives in ordinary places: payment runs, supplier onboarding, payroll, expense claims. The pattern is always the same: opportunity, pressure, and the absence of anyone watching.
Our Fraud Control Lifecycle
These are the fraud exposure patterns we encounter most across organisations. If more than two are familiar, your control environment has gaps worth closing.
Falsified banking details, duplicate invoices, and urgent payment requests that exploit busy finance teams.
Vendors onboarded without verification, creating openings for ghost suppliers and collusion.
Payroll runs nobody reconciles against real staff records are among the oldest frauds because they still work.
One person can create a supplier, capture a payment, and approve it, with no independent check anywhere in the chain.
Logs, exceptions, and alerts exist but nobody reviews them, so the signals of ongoing fraud go unread.
When fraud is suspected, the organisation improvises: evidence is lost, decisions stall, and losses grow.
Fraud thrives where nobody is watching: in unmonitored processes, unverified suppliers, and duties that were never properly segregated. Closing those gaps is a governance duty, not an option.
At Lebone Marang and Summer, we work as your independent fraud risk partner: assessing where exposure lives, designing controls that operate daily, and rehearsing the response before you need it.
Organisations partnering with us can expect to:
We are entirely independent: no products to sell you, no findings to soften. You get an honest picture of your fraud exposure and a practical path to close it.
Our methodology aligns Info-Tech Research Group’s risk frameworks with King IV governance expectations, keeping your programme credible to boards and auditors alike.
Close the Gaps. Watch the Flows. Respond Without Hesitation.
These are the shifts organisations experience when fraud risk moves from assumed-safe to actively governed.
Let us run a structured fraud risk assessment and show you exactly where the gaps are, and how to close them.
