Defining fraud sources

A fraud source is an entity that is generating deception. People are most often considered fraud sources, but organizations and even non-entities (things that someone would normally not consider an entity, such as a smart device) can become fraud sources as well. An application that is fed misinformation can become a fraud source by outputting the incorrect analysis of data input. A user is deceived into believing one thing is true when another thing is actually true. The deception isn’t intentional, but fraud occurs just the same. However, if the application contains a bug, then it’s broken and needs to be fixed; it isn’t a fraud source in this case. Organizational fraud usually involves a group of people working together to develop this deception. For example, an organization could try to attract investors for a product that doesn’t exist yet and will never exist (vaporware is specific to the computer industry because it involves...