Question

In a fraud investigation how you would store evidence you obtained as part of your investigation? Include in your discussion both physical and electronic information you may have found on a suspects computer.

Answer 1

Fraud evidences obtained during investigation whether digitally or physically are most vital part for an investigation because the main purpose of fraud investigation is to reveal the truth and obtain the frauds.

Storing of evidences is become a major problem when there is a protection of data digitally due to several reasons like software spoilation, hardware spoilation , manipulations deletions in the data etc. There requires some protective measure to keep digital evidences.

1.Preservation of the data using harsh codes.

2. Data must be kept in a secured computer under the supervision of forensic invigilator and the copy of that relevant data should be kept in a drive so that the risk of manipulations could be reduced.

Physical evidences is in the form of a document file etc. The physical evidence must be kept in a proper custody to an authorised personnel so that the reliability of that evidence remains intact. Manipulations inn the physical evidences is quite difficult in comparison of digital evidences. The reliability of physical evidences are more than digital.