News tagged with fraud
Militants, 'hacktivists' exploit Web, eye recruits
(AP) -- Terrorist groups that have long used the Internet to spread propaganda are increasingly tapping the Web to teach Islamic extremists how to be hackers, recruit techies for cyberwarfare and raise money ...
Jun 19, 2009 |
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ID-theft ruling: Set your own fraud alerts
(AP) -- Companies that sell "identity-theft protection" present an alluring but questionable proposition.
May 29, 2009 |
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Taiwan man arrested for cyber love scams
A Taiwanese man has been arrested for allegedly swindling more than 200 million Taiwan dollars (6.25 million US) from 50 women in one of the largest cyber scams in the country, police said.
May 27, 2009 |
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Japan's ex-IT mogul told to pay damages in Livedoor scam
A Japanese court on Thursday ordered disgraced dotcom tycoon Takafumi Horie and his aides to pay seven billion yen (74 million dollars) in damages to shareholders in his former firm over a fraud case.
May 21, 2009 |
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Monster settles SEC backdating charges for $2.5M
(AP) -- Monster Worldwide Inc., which runs the Monster job search Web site, has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle federal civil charges that it secretly backdated options for its executives and employees.
May 18, 2009 |
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Ponzi scheme theme in 'Made Off' videogame
Is there a bit of Bernie in you? Mobile phone users worldwide will soon be able to play Ponzi scheme scammers in a new videogame based on the financial ruin wreaked by jailed US fraudster Bernard Madoff.
May 06, 2009 |
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Technology, sour economy breed, feed Internet scams
Ute Schnetzinger thought the bride was demanding. Only later did the Richardson, Texas, florist learn she was bogus.
May 06, 2009 |
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Lessons from Schon -- the worst physics fraudster?
How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? From claims to have made the world's first organic electrical laser to the fictional ...
May 05, 2009 |
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Private equity firms win battle for bankrupt Polaroid
Bankrupt Polaroid Corp. has been bought by a pair of private equity firms after a judge threw out the acquisition of the iconic inventor of instant photography by another investor.
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Ex-CEO of BetOnSports pleads guilty
(AP) -- The former chief executive of BetOnSports pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal racketeering conspiracy, admitting that the Internet company falsely portrayed Web-based gambling as legal and caused customers to lose ...
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Reports of Internet crime jump 33 percent
(AP) -- Reports of Internet-based crime jumped 33 percent in 2008, according to a group that monitors web-based fraud.
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Third bidder joins race for Satyam
The board of India's Satyam Computer Services met Saturday to review a list of bidders for the fraud-hit outsourcer as a third company announced it had joined the race.
Mar 21, 2009 |
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SEC drops options case vs former McAfee lawyer
(AP) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission says it has dropped its lawsuit against McAfee Inc.'s former general counsel which accused him of illegally tampering with stock options.
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Probe into faked studies rocks medical community
A trail-blazing anesthesiologist, whose research shaped pain-relief for millions around the world, has been fabricating data for more than a decade, a hospital where he once practiced claimed Saturday.
Mar 15, 2009 |
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Study Looks Inside the Minds of Identity Thieves
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Federal Trade Commission recently asked a UT Dallas criminology researcher for help understanding what motivates identity thieves.
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Mar 03, 2009 |
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