The mission of the 2013 Financial Crimes & Digital Evidence Conference is to provide investigators and prosecutors who handle financial crimes, and private-sector personnel who assist them in doing so, the best possible training to assist in the (1) prevention, detection, investigations and prosecution of financial fraud; (2) acquisition, preservation and use of digital evidence; and (3) building of law enforcement-related networks to hold accountable those who perpetrate financial fraud. The conference addresses the most recent trends in fraud, best practices in the acquisition and use of digital evidence, and incisive search and seizure legal updates.
As an example, the 2012 conference addressed, among other things, (1) the impact of financial fraud on victims and society; (2) securities and real estate related fraud; (3) counterfeiting; (4) organized retail fraud; (5) utilizing collective state and federal resources to combat financial fraud; and (6) utilizing information from Internet social networking sites.