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Do you think in today's computer intensive society, fraud is more easily committed through technology or manipulations of paper documentation? why or why not?

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A discussion of why the writer thinks fraud is more easily applied in either paper or technology.

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I think that either could have the potential for fraudulent activity and each does. The methods may be different, but they both are equally a problem. The internet and computer technology allows changes to happen quickly and sometimes without notice. Stealing of identities and movement of anything can happen within ...

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