Word: fraude
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...it’s not just big business executives who conspire to swindle millions of dollars of other people’s money. Thanks to the internet, ordinary Americans can now try their hands at big-time fraud. Propelled by a volatile mixture of cupidity and stupidity, many Americans engage in very shady business dealings, and yet, amazingly, our government treats them like victims...
...murdered in Lagos, Nigeria in 1995 while pursuing the Nigeria scam. Yet this exception only proves the rule. No one deserves to die for attempting to steal this money, but it seems fair that they lose their money, since they are, after all, attempting to take part in international fraud...
...breather from sci-fi/adventure romps and historical morality plays to dust off his moribund ‘lost boy’ conceit, reigniting it to power this breezy, rambling 1960s-set caper. Leonardo DiCaprio spends the movie perpetrating a richly entertaining string of identity cons and check fraud that Spielberg tempers with rather obvious meditations on the state of the nuclear family. Amidst the mischief and philosophizing, Tom Hanks, as the dry, wry FBI man tailing DiCaprio, ends up stealing the movie by internalizing his ‘decent everyman’ persona. Hanks begins the film with...
...many ways, the jewelry trade resembles the book-publishing business that gave Amazon.com its start. Both combine discounted prices with massive selections--too big for mail-order catalogs, perfect for computer searches. But because there are more opportunities for fraud, shoppers need to take special precautions. First, make sure you buy from a site that offers a money-back guarantee so that you can return anything you don't like. Second, do your research before you type in your credit-card number. The Jewelers Vigilante Committee jvclegal.org is a good place to start; it offers a buyer's checklist...
...David Tilken, sells Broker Audit, software that automatically tracks client-account activity and alerts in-house compliance officers to suspicious doings. As Tilken, 48, politely puts it, the idea is to prevent "accidents"--everything from long-term neglect to mistyped trade orders to ill-advised portfolio strategies to outright fraud...