> In my anecdotal experience, big companies are far less likely to behave fraudulently than small, local companies. I'd imagine it's kind of a bell curve, with

> In my anecdotal experience, big companies are far less likely to behave fraudulently than small, local companies. I'd imagine it's kind of a bell curve, with very small companies more likely (since some of those are 'fly by night'), increasing to some point due to more oversight / legitimacy needed to run a bigger organization, until they start to become powerful enough that corrupt people can hide things or accept fraudulent actions as a 'cost of business'. Didn't investigate methods (and wouldn't be very qualified to judge anyway), but this study might not catch the smaller fish, so it would skew towards only catching the bigger ones, leading to the conclusion