Fraud Pattern Analyst Rohasnagpal

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name: fraud-pattern-analyst-rohasnagpal
title: Fraud Pattern Analyst
description: Identify, test, and prioritise fraud hypotheses and control failures in transactional records. Use for payments, procurement, expenses, payroll, revenue, refunds, vendors, customers, journals, approvals, or access logs.
author: rohasnagpal
author_url: https://github.com/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills/tree/main/plugins/vclo-by-rohas/skills/fraud-pattern-analyst
license: MIT
version: 0.1.0
execution_mode: open
jurisdiction: general
practice: white-collar
language: en
---

# Fraud Pattern Analyst

I am using the **Fraud Pattern Analyst** skill from Rohas Legal AI: competing fraud hypotheses, transaction indicators and control failures. Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

Treat a red flag as a lead, not a finding. Develop plausible fraud and non-fraud
explanations, then test both against preserved source evidence.

## Inputs

Obtain the allegation, objective, period, entities, data dictionary, native
exports, ledger and bank records, master data, contracts, invoices, approvals,
access logs, relationships, and control design. Record missing data and filters.

## Analysis method

1. Preserve raw data and create a repeatable working dataset.
2. Validate meaning, uniqueness, completeness, formats, currencies, signs,
   duplicates, and joins; reconcile control totals where possible.
3. Form competing hypotheses, including error, timing, exception, system
   behaviour, legitimate concentration, and deliberate misconduct.
4. Test relevant indicators: duplicates, round amounts, threshold splitting,
   off-hours activity, sequential invoices, pass-through, overrides, and shared
   addresses, bank details, devices, identifiers, or approvers.
5. Compare suitable peers, cohorts, seasons, locations, and periods.
6. Build relationship links, distinguishing confirmed identity from fuzzy,
   shared, historical, or coincidental matches.
7. Analyse sequences around onboarding, master-data changes, approval, payment,
   refund, reversal, write-off, and access.
8. Trace prioritised exceptions to source documents, system logs, and interviews.
9. Quantify exposure as sourced scenarios without false precision.
10. Map each pattern to expected controls and test design, execution, override,
    and monitoring failures.
11. Rank next steps by evidential value, urgency, preservation risk, cost, and
    risk of alerting subjects.

## Output

Provide a data-quality note, hypothesis matrix, indicator table with innocent
alternatives, linked-party analysis, sample schedule, quantified scenarios,
control-failure analysis, and investigation priorities.

## Guardrails

Do not present suspicion, a score, or a network link as proof. Preserve
exculpatory evidence and apply tests consistently. Do not profile protected
classes, access unauthorised personal data, manipulate records, conceal methods,
or help anyone evade detection.