Isrotel Corporate salary accountant is suspected of major embezzlement, estimated at roughly NIS 8 millions. The Corporate accountant is suspected of falsifying records and creating, almost uninterruptedly, fictitious paychecks to people who are not in fact employees of "Isrotel".
[Saturday, March 20, 2010. Hebrew summarized from 'Eilati']
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The police recently realized how easy it is to fake documentation needed for firearms license issuance. A 28 year old Armenian who came to Israel a few years ago, faked identity card, acquired license for firearms and became security officer, working in the executive protection business.
Only recently, he was summoned to the police following an assault complaint filed by a woman and his fake identity was exposed.

[August 9&10, 2010. Hebrew summarized from 'Walla' and 'Israel Today'].

Shafran handles integrity checks for security recruits and employees in high risk positions. Why don't you call us on time?

Some of Israel's most sensitive technological systems activated by its defense establishment were mistakenly exposed last year when the contents of a certain parliamentary debate found its way to the Knesset (Parliament)'s website. Knesset officials claimed to have drawn conclusions from that event, yet same failure seems to repeat itself when protocols of sensitive sub committees were put onto the same website without proper filtration just these past weeks, revealing names of senior employees within the intelligence community, details which are supposed to remain unrevealed in public [Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Hebrew summarized from 'Haaretz online'].

Shafran reduces the number of such incidents in companies, institutions and organizations while focusing on the human behavior factors which enable such events.

The amusing but lesson-teaching "Please rob me" website, offers its readers a listing of all those empty homes out there, whose owners have just left for vacation or for other reasons. The site cross-verifies this information from the different popular social websites thus facilitating potential robbers to locate their new targets easily. The website aims at raising companies' awareness,  provoking them to provide answers to online privacy related issues [Hebrew summerized from 'Calcalist' of Feb 22, 2010].
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Cleaning person "swiped" information, visitor "accidentally" entered the wrong office and sales manager whose social network profile gave away one redundant detail - A new study states that in 2009 the motivation of companies to steal information from competitors increased. Here are 10 tips to help you keep the information close to you.
[Saturday, February 6, 2010. Hebrew summarized from 'YNet Economy'].
Your company might be vulnerable to all these. You can prevent it by calling Shafran consultancy.

EMC Israel, a subsidiary of the international data storage company EMC, was simply unaware that its chief executive Eyal Copitt had served a year in jail, from November 2002 to November 2003. Copitt was convicted of tax evasion of some NIS 5 million, and his violations were committed at a number of the 11 companies he had founded in the 1990s and the early 2000s.

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The financial crisis exposed a wave of Ponzi schemes, securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering and making false filings. A new study shows that 0.25% of employees tend to embezzle at some point. Lately, there is a swift of multitude publications over this issue, such as Madoff or Stanford's cases and others, smaller in scale but no less disgracing or hurting in loss and damage.
[Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Hebrew summarized from 'Globes']
Your company might be vulnerable to fraud. You can prevent it by calling Shafran consultancy.

Some job applicants tend to use false information in order to increase their chances, thus presenting greater risk to the firm which employs them. As a result, more and more companies use State Security Agency veterans who specialize in security vetting in order to do the professional screening necessary.
[Monday, October 05, 2009. Hebrew copied from 'Globes']
Shafran managers and employees, who have years of experience in State vetting procedures of the ISA, are there for you exactly when you need them.

Water purification company Gal-Al filed a NIS 3M claim against Tana industries (manufacturer of Tami-4) and against private investigators convicted in the Trojan Horse affair. Gal-Al estimates its damage by NIS 11.75M but filed a NIS 3M claim for court's fee purposes.
[Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Hebrew copied from 'Globes']
Competitive Intelligence might harm your business. Call Shafran Company to consult you.

According to Fahn Kanne & Co, Accountant Office, the most common act is performing a background check before employing the applicant. The survey shows an increase in using preventive methods of investigative inspection to job applicants in Israel, following the exposure of cases of embezzlement and fraud in Israel and overseas.
[Wednesday, June 22, 2009. Hebrew copied from 'TheMarker']
Shafran Consultancy & Management, with proven expertise in this field, invites you to consult with her on the vital implementation methods needed to suit your company.