Word: scamming
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...Nick Leeson brought down Barings bank with $1.4 billion in fraudulent trades. At 25, Gary Hoke faked a Bloomberg news report linked to a Yahoo bulletin board in a stock scam that cost investors $93,000. At 24, Rafael Shaoulian littered financial bulletin boards with unfounded hype that enabled him to sell a stock and pocket $173,000. At 23, Mark Jakob drove down the stock of Emulex with a phony Internet report. He bought with a vengeance after the decline and made $241,000 when the hoax was discovered and the stock rebounded...
...football team for betting on college sports, including three who reportedly bet against their own team; two Arizona State players were convicted and sent to prison for shaving points; two former Northwestern University basketball players were convicted of rigging games against Penn State, Wisconsin and Michigan, a scam organized by a former Notre Dame place kicker turned bookie; four former Northwestern football players pleaded guilty to perjury charges after lying to grand juries investigating sports betting at the school; and last year the University of Michigan released a study saying that nearly half of the male athletes in the survey...
...Dropping out at 17, Rodriguez earned her GED and spent a full year "without any direction," composing poetry and short stories before deciding to write screenplays. Figuring "the best way to learn about movies was to become an actress," she fell for an old showbiz scam, signing up with a talent agency that charged hundreds of dollars for publicity pictures and then sent her on open casting calls advertised in Backstage...
...nattily attired youngsters approach the door. That would be Mark and comrades Juliette Beck, 29, and Alli Starr, 32. With them is another youngster, Doris (Granny D) Haddock, 90, who walked clear across the country last year in the name of campaign reform. All four get flagged, but three scam their way in. Dan Quayle Dad then flashes his press pass; Starr hooks my arm as if she's my date, and we've all passed over to the other side...
...remains on the path to democracy - but his pleas may fall on deaf ears. After all, the White House told hundreds of visiting U.S. business executives and journalists to bring cash - preferably in the form of $100 bills - to avoid having to use their credit cards in scam-rich Nigeria. Foreigners' credit-card receipts often are seen as "legal tender" by unscrupulous Nigerians, who will use numbers plucked from receipts to buy goods for themselves...