·         Fraud and abuse costs U.S. organizations more than $400 billion annually.

·         The average organization loses more than $9 per day per employee to fraud and abuse.

·         The average organization loses about 6% of its total annual revenue to fraud and abuse committed by its own employees.

·         The median loss caused by males is about $185,000; by females, about $48,000.

·         The typical perpetrator is a college-educated white male.

·         Men commit nearly 75% of the offenses.

·         Median losses caused by men are nearly four times those caused by women.

·         Losses caused by managers are four times those caused by employees.

·         Median losses caused by executives are 16 times those of their employees.

·         The most costly abuses occur in organizations with less than 100 employees.

·         The education industry experiences the lowest median losses.

·         The highest media losses occur in the real estate financing sector.