Word: frauds
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...That technology is already built into major Web browsers, and this fall Sony will market a device that enables users to sign documents with a thumbprint. Although the bill is a big win for e-commerce, some consumer groups have expressed concern about the potential for online fraud. For good or for ill, President Clinton is expected to sign the bill (presumably the old-fashioned way); it could go into effect as early...
...been followed by some of the wise guys more used to the ways of shakedowns and loansharking. In a crackdown authorities are calling the largest in U.S. history, 120 people, including alleged members and intimates of New York's five major organized crime families, were charged Wednesday with securities fraud. The defendants are said to have defrauded investors out of at least $50 million over five years, often using the Internet to hype falsified and/or inflated stocks. The charges, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, included 16 indictments and seven criminal complaints, and targeted a dazzling array of stockbrokers...
...months, Edward Francis Meinert, Jr., an Extension School student, posed as a transfer student in the College Class of 2002. Meinert had conned his friends and colleagues, hiding the fact that he was not an undergraduate and that he was also facing an impending Federal prison sentence for fraud that he incurred as a student at George Washington University...
...months, Edward Francis Meinert, Jr., an Extension School student, posed as a transfer student in the College class of 2002. Meinert joined a variety of extracurriculars, never disclosing the fact that he was a former student at George Washington University and was facing a federal prison sentence for fraud...
...Skimming is the biggest problem in bank fraud today," says Gregory Regan, head of the Secret Service financial-crimes division. "It's the bank robbery of the future. It's technically simple, point-and-click technology. And the equipment is cheap. If you skim 15 or 20 accounts, you can generate $50,000 to $60,000 worth of fraud, and nobody is going to know about it till the victims get their bills, 30 to 60 days after the crime. So the odds of getting caught are reduced...