Use data mining techniques to detect fraud
The basic premise of Benford's Law is that certain leading digits in any random set of data will appear in a specific non-uniform manner or in a certain frequency -- anything that is outside that frequency indicates a non-compliant anomaly. There are some great tools out there that can let you apply Benford's Law to your data, including Microsoft Excel.
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