Word: scams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...million in "phantom profits" were tallied in the last year as a result of the scam, the firm said...
...scam occurred in the trading of so-called stripped government bonds, a type of security...
Kidder said the scam involved "a large number of phantom trades" entered over more than a year...
...scam involved "forward contracts" that called for the exchange at a later of interest strips for bonds...
...officials in Washington and Moscow fear that poorly policed borders and potentially staggering profits provide both opportunity and incentive for illegal trading. Many hustlers in Moscow brazenly offer to sell small quantities of what they claim to be spent nuclear fuel stolen from production facilities. Often the ingredients these scam artists pass off as "samples" are benign substances, like cesium 137 and low-enriched uranium, that cannot be used to make a bomb. But no one doubts that a market for the real stuff exists. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, membership in the world's nuclear club requires...