Financial Crime and Fraud Investigations + Basic OSINT

The "Financial Crime Investigations and Fundamentals of Open Source Intelligence - OSINT" course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to conduct a successful financial crime and fraud investigation, as well as the basics to effectively gather and analyze Open Source Intelligence also known as OSINT.

In the first part of the course, you will be introduced to the criminal intelligence process and all its stages. You will learn analysis techniques, how to develop premises and inferences, and how to present the results in different forms.

In the second part, you will learn how to prepare the tech environment for research and use the tools needed to conduct a secure and safe investigation. You'll explore the basic fundamentals of virtual machines - VMs, VPNs, DNS records, exif data, the dark web, virtual currencies / cryptocurrencies, and much more.

To assess your knowledge, the course includes small questionnaires for some of the sections.

Besides Udemy's certificate, we additionally offer a Personalized Certificate of Completion issued by The Elite Compliance Group, upon request. To obtain yours, simply send us a private message through Udemy, including the name you'd like to see on the certificate.

Please consider that due to high demand, the certificates are processed and issued at the end of each month. For instance, if you request a certificate in January, it will be provided in February.

Enroll in the course now to take your knowledge and skills to the next level and advance your career in the compliance field.

Full Course Index

Part 1: Financial Crime and Fraud Investigations

• An introduction to intelligence

  • Information vs. Intelligence

    • Stages

    • The origins of intelligence analysis

  • The analyst

  • Criminal intelligence analysis

  • Intelligence analysis and organized crime

• The intelligence process

  • What is the intelligence process?

    • The intelligence cycle

  • Direction and collection

    • Direction/tasking

    • Collection - Data gathering

    • Sources

    • Collection plan

  • Evaluation

    • Evaluation process

    • Evaluation tables

  • Collation and Analysis

    • Collation

    • Data integration and analysis

    • Inferences

  • Dissemination

• Extra section - Optional articles

  • Sanitization

  • Dissemination

  • Axioms for an intelligence analyst

  • Ten standards for intelligence analysts

• Basic analysis techniques

  • Link analysis

• Inference development

  • Premises

  • Inference

• Presentation of results

  • Oral briefings

    • Briefing structure

    • Analyze the audience

    • Outline your briefing

  • Written reports

    • Contents of a written report

Part 2: Open Source Intelligence | OSINT

• Introduction

  • How OSINT fits into the intelligence cycle

    • Can OSINT support law enforcement?

  • Where does OSINT come from?

    • The value of OSINT for both public and private sectors

    • How to fight infoxication

  • Open sources

• Preparing the environment

  • Virtual Machines

  • The browser

  • VPNs and More tools and tips

• Research

  • DNS records

  • Archived and cached pages

  • Social Media

  • Image information

  • The Dark Web

  • Virtual Currencies