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...online poll is a curious beast. Time.com gathered votes for 21 months on the person, event, fraud and worst idea of the century. But before the tallying could even begin, several hurdles had to be cleared: Jesus and Muhammad were ousted for chronological accuracy. Then the "bots," computer robots designed to stuff the e-box, had to be repelled. Having fought off these intruders, time.com found that voters had some strange preferences...
...PHONY OR FRAUD OF THE CENTURY...
...ballooning stock market, measured, critical financial reasoning strikes some people as cynical and potentially disastrous. (He who hesitates is lost - and loses out on that IPO.) That pervasive air of recklessness, combined with the infinite information available to investors, renders the Internet spectacularly ripe ground for speculation and securities fraud. And while the SEC is getting better at tracking down cyber-criminals (this case was wrapped up in less than a month), charlatans will probably have free rein over the Internet (and susceptible users) for many years to come...
...Unfortunately for two cyber-hucksters who made a quick $370,000 by circulating false rumors of a corporate takeover, technology has also made it easier for law enforcement officials to catch criminals. Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged Arash Aziz-Golshani and Hootan Melamed, both 23, with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and the two face civil charges from the SEC as well. It was a stunningly simple plan: One Monday morning, investor chat rooms were abuzz with a tip that NEI, a down-and-out commercial printing company, was about to be snapped up by a prosperous suitor. A feeding frenzy...
When the Hatchet, the student newspaper of George Washington University (GWU), printed an article about the fraud charges against him on Nov. 8, Meinert resigned from the fraternity and withdrew from the Extension School...