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Core ACAMS Certified AFC Investigator topics
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Investigation Governance, Intake, Triage, and Prioritization
Investigation intake from transaction monitoring, sanctions, fraud, KYC, law enforcement, media, referrals, and whistleblowers | Triage using risk, urgency, regulatory deadlines, customer impact, and evidentiary strength | Case ownership, escalation paths, quality standards, and investigation governance | Managing backlogs, repeat alerts, linked cases, and high-risk investigations
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Evidence Gathering, Source Evaluation, and Investigative Planning
Developing an investigative hypothesis, scope, timeline, and evidence plan | Using customer files, transactions, counterparty data, documents, device data, open-source intelligence, adverse media, subpoenas, and law-enforcement information | Assessing source reliability, relevance, completeness, and legal or privacy limits | Building chronologies, flow-of-funds analysis, network maps, and entity-link analysis
3
Complex ML, TF, Fraud, Sanctions, and Network Typologies
Investigating money laundering, terrorist financing, proliferation financing, sanctions evasion, fraud proceeds, corruption, cybercrime, and human trafficking indicators | Analyzing shell companies, nominees, professional facilitators, mule networks, trade flows, crypto exposure, and cross-border structures | Recognizing typology indicators while avoiding over-reliance on single red flags | Connecting KYC, monitoring, sanctions, fraud, cyber, and external intelligence
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Case Documentation, Escalation, SAR/STR Narratives, and Law Enforcement
Writing clear case rationales, decision memos, chronologies, and SAR/STR narratives | Escalating to compliance leadership, sanctions, fraud, legal, business, regulators, or law enforcement | Managing post-filing monitoring, continuing activity reviews, account restrictions, exits, or blocks | Preserving evidence and maintaining audit-ready case files
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Ethics, Confidentiality, Tipping-Off, and Cross-Border Constraints
Maintaining confidentiality, independence, integrity, and professional conduct | Avoiding tipping off, unauthorized disclosure, and inappropriate customer communication | Handling privacy, data localization, cross-border sharing, privilege, and legal constraints | Escalating ethical concerns, conflicts, pressure to close cases, or unsafe decisions
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This page tracks the exam as about 90 questions under 180 minutes. Always confirm the latest official candidate guide before booking.