News tagged with financial fraud


Probing Question: How do Ponzi Schemes work?

Other Sciences / Economics

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Imagine the shock, the horror, and the sheer panic that would come with learning that the financial plan you’d sunk your life savings into was a sham, the financial experts you trusted were crooks, and all your money was ...





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Top 10 Internet Crimes of 2006

Technology / Internet

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (62) | comments 0

What Internet crimes to people complain to the government about?


Failing the sniff test: Researchers find new way to spot fraud

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Companies that commit fraud can find innovative ways to fudge the numbers, making it hard to tell something is wrong by just looking at their financial statements. But research from North Carolina State University unveils ...


India fraud office to prosecute Satyam founder

Technology / Business

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

India's fraud office will file charges this month against the founder of outsourcer Satyam after he admitted to falsifying profits in the nation's biggest corporate fraud, a minister said Monday.


Identifying ID theft and fraud

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

If the wife of FBI boss Robert Mueller has warned him not to use internet banking because of the threat of online fraud, then what hope is there for the average Jo? The results of research published in a forthcoming issue ...


A man plays poker on his computer connected to an internet gaming site

Canadian charged in US in Internet gambling case

Technology / Internet

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A Canadian resident was indicted in the United States on fraud and related charges for processing some 350 million dollars for Internet gambling firms, officials said Thursday.


Artificial Intelligence to tackle rogue traders

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

As the Credit Crunch continues to affect the worldwide markets the need for efficient methods to combat financial fraud has become more important than ever. Now researchers at the University of Sunderland are working on ...


Broadcom co-founder takes stand in fraud trial

Technology / Business

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Broadcom Corp.'s co-founder took the witness stand Tuesday in the fraud trial of the company's former chief financial officer.


Indian software company Satyam's headquarters in Hyderabad

Fraud-hit Satyam gets nod for 51 pct stake sale

Technology / Business

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fraud-hit Indian outsourcing firm Satyam on Friday said it had been given the green light to open a global bidding process to sell off a 51 percent stake in the company.


Appeals court orders new trial in Brocade case (AP)

Appeals court orders new trial in Brocade case

Technology / Business

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A federal appeals court has tossed out the criminal conviction of the first Silicon Valley executive to go to trial in a stock options scandal that triggered charges against at least a dozen executives.


Disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff

Ponzi scheme theme in 'Made Off' videogame

Technology / Software

created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Is there a bit of Bernie in you? Mobile phone users worldwide will soon be able to play Ponzi scheme scammers in a new videogame based on the financial ruin wreaked by jailed US fraudster Bernard Madoff.



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