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Fraud is a big problem. The average company loses more than $1 million annually to fraud, notes Gary Bares, president of Phoenix-based Verifraud, a fraud risk management consulting firm. In fact, between 15 percent and 30 percent of bad debt usually is due to preventable fraud, he claims. Typically, the perpetrators are a relatively small group of skilled professionals who victimize the same companies over and over again, year after year. They're clever enough to create credible fictional corporations that qualify for trade credit, but they're sloppy enough that they reuse addresses and phone numbers, work from the same city and have techniques that a fraud prevention pro ...