alt Hacker NewsNeat! Benford’s Law was the first topic I dove into in undergrad math that got a minor publication. Given how well known it is for forensic accounting I’ve always wanted to look into convictions and see if the “average” fraudster has wised up and produces more realistic distributions.
i suppose that nowadays analysts have more sophisticated tests?
in any case, for any set of statistical tests, it's relatively trivial to produce data that passes all of them