The qualifications are as follows
1) Earn a degree in Economic Crime, Fraud Management, Accounting, Criminal Justice, Law, or Business Administration. For many positions, a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice may be substituted for investigator experience.
Fraud Investigator Job Description
As a Fraud Investigator, you will conduct civil and criminal investigations. Fraud investigators interview complainants, employers and witnesses, research records and obtain documentation related to personnel, medical and other evidence pertinent to the case. They obtain statements of fact, depositions, or confessions. They must understand and adhere to legal requirements and responsibilities gathering evidence. Fraud examiners obtain and serve subpoenas. They coordinate the service of search warrants and conduct field surveillance. Fraud investigators write investigative reports establishing proof of facts and evidence sufficient to be used in court or administrative hearing. Fraud investigator jobs also entail presenting completed investigation to prosecutors, U. S. Attorney’s Office, or to assistant attorneys general. These jobs also require providing testimony in court or other proceedings.
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Fraud Investigator Qualifications and Training
Fraud Investigators generally have experience as an investigator with a criminal justice agency or criminal investigative agency of the armed forces, or investigating personal backgrounds, unfair and deceptive business practices, insurance casualty claims, or other directly allied field, three years of which must include field experience. College-level course work with major emphasis in criminal justice, business administration, public administration, law or directly allied field may be substituted for experience depending on where you are applying. Training courses in the following areas are desired: Interviewing and taking statements; report writing; collecting, preserving and/or rules of evidence; police science.