Crime & Fraud
When Trust Is the Attack Vector.
From commission kickbacks and shell-company schemes to CEO fraud and look-alike domain payment diversions, corporate crime exploits trust as often as it exploits systems. Quantum reconstructs the transaction chain, tests what in the record was ever genuine, and gives insurers and corporates a defensible loss figure — whatever policy trigger, recovery or deductible question the fraud pattern raises.
Crime & Fraud Case Studies
The Kickback Scheme
Commercial Crime / Industrial Manufacturer
Senior sales and regional managers across several markets collude with external agents to siphon company funds through inflated and entirely fictitious commissions — a kickback scheme reaching all the way up to the country CEO before a whistleblower brings it down.
EUR 5 million
The Fake Subcontractor
Fidelity / Logistics & Freight Company
A newly hired employee, working with an organized external fraud ring, invents a fake client and a fake subcontractor and starts invoicing the company for transport jobs that never happened, backed by forged customs and shipping documents.
EUR 250 K
The Vanishing Supplier
Supplier Fraud / Consumer Goods
At the height of the pandemic PPE shortage, a retailer places an urgent order for millions of face masks from an overseas supplier sourced through a broker — pays a substantial deposit into what is presented as a secure holding account — and the shipment never arrives.
GBP 2 million
The Expense Account
False Expenses / Multinational Company
A multinational’s regional office comes under scrutiny after an audit flags years of senior staff expense claims
that sit somewhere between accepted local business custom and personal enrichment, testing exactly where a crime policy’s line falls.
USD 1 million
THE Fake CEO
Social Engineering / Luxury Retail
The APAC Manager receives an urgent instruction, apparently from the group CEO to release funds for a confidential acquisition in China that cannot be discussed with anyone else — every email, call and signature checking out until the money is gone.
EUR 1 million
The Supplier Payment Diversion
Payment diversion / Manufacturer
A manufacturer’s accounts payable team updates a long-standing
supplier’s bank details after a routine looking email thread, only for weeks of ordinary invoice traffic — and the payment behind it — to have quietly moved onto a look-alike domain.
USD 750 K