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...boxing quarterfinals, there was a moment when I realized the Cold War is not only history, it's cold history. In the space of a half hour I saw Jeff Lacy, the American armed robber turned 165-pound contender, stopped by a Russian, then our 201-pound ex-con, Michael Bennett, stopped by the brilliant Cuban, Felix Savon. The crowd was very evenhanded and it wasn't until I was on my way out that I realized I had just watched two of our guys lose to a Russian and a Cuban. We used to be able to work...
They used to just look like kids, these rogue traders, boiler-room con artists and Internet scamsters possessing just enough knowledge about the stock market to fleece anyone who would listen. Now they really are kids...
...great evidence, and it's easy to find people," says the SEC's Stark. "Internet con artists may try to hide behind multiple screen aliases, but most computers leave their own electronic footprints that are relatively easy for experts to track...
...con to work, it must be done out in the open where investors will see it and throw money at it. "You want people to find you," Stark says. "You want them to read your information." That's what makes the stock go up, but it also makes you easier to find. Lebed may have got away with his schemes for a year, but others have been identified within days. In the Emulex case in August, Jakob was targeted within hours of his phony press release. Hoke, an employee at PairGain Technologies, was nabbed just a week after his bogus...
DIED. KONRAD KUJAU, 62, German con artist who in 1983 claimed to have found 60 volumes of diaries written by Adolf Hitler, which he had actually forged himself; of cancer; in Stuttgart. The diaries, which he sold to a German magazine for $4.8 million, were exposed as fakes a few days after the first excerpts were published. He was found guilty of fraud and spent three years in prison...