[Verse 1] In Houston's towers, deals were made Behind closed doors where truth would fade Enron's numbers looked so bright But algorithms would shine their light Special purpose entities hidden away Moving debt where none could say [Chorus] Check the digits, one through nine Benford's Law will draw the line First digit one should lead the way Thirty percent throughout the day Network maps will show the flow Anomalies will let you know When the patterns break apart That's when fraud reveals its heart [Verse 2] Natural numbers have a rule Digit patterns are the tool One appears in thirty-one Two through nine, their frequency's done But when humans fake the books The distribution different looks Seventy-four billion lost Hidden truth came at such cost [Chorus] Check the digits, one through nine Benford's Law will draw the line First digit one should lead the way Thirty percent throughout the day Network maps will show the flow Anomalies will let you know When the patterns break apart That's when fraud reveals its heart [Bridge] Email trails and money flows Network analysis shows Off-book entities in the web Connections that they thought were dead Sherron Watkins tried to warn While the algorithms mourned Deviations everywhere If we'd known to look with care [Verse 3] Now the regulators know Let the scanning algorithms go Sarbanes-Oxley changed the game Algorithmic fraud detection came Every transaction gets reviewed Digital watchdogs never snooze What took years to understand Now computers find by hand [Chorus] Check the digits, one through nine Benford's Law will draw the line First digit one should lead the way Thirty percent throughout the day Network maps will show the flow Anomalies will let you know When the patterns break apart That's when fraud reveals its heart [Outro] Mathematics solved the case Put the evidence in place Enron's mystery now clear Thanks to algorithms here
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