Tag: Fraud

Online Security, Are We All Potentially At Risk?
How safe are we really? One may wonder if large corporations, small businesses, and individuals are all subject to online fraud. Financial Fraud Action UK has recently reported th...
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“Real Housewives” star facing 50 Years in Prison
Federal fraud. Tax evasion. Jail. It’s the real-life reality for one of television’s most infamous "hotty" housewives. Some law enforcement officials say years of real-life prison...
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7-Eleven Raids: Nine Arrested For Illegal Workers
The U.S. Attorney's Office today unsealed two indictments charging nine 7-Eleven store owners and operators with wire fraud, s...
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Lenny Dykstra to Leave Prison on Sunday
Former Major League Baseball star Lenny Dykstra is set to be released from prison on Sunday, just 15 months into his three-year...
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If You Get an Unsolicited Email from the FBI, It’s Not the FBI
The FBI does not send unsolicited email. That's the simple message behind a press release just issued by the government agency. They were forced to put out this release because...
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HP Logs $8.8 Billion Impairment Charge For Possibly Fraudulent Accounting by Autonomy
Just over one year ago, HP bought Autonomy, an enterprise search and knowledge management service company for $10.2 billion. Today, HP announced it would be taking an $8.8 billion...
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Missing Georgia Banker May Have Taken $17 Million With Him
Missing Georgia banker Aubrey "Lee" Price disappeared over two weeks ago after telling a few close associates that he'd lost "a large sum of money through his trading activities"....
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Olympus to Slash Workforce and Sell Equity Stake
After the discovery of a huge financial scandal back in October, Olympus Corporation is planning on laying off almost 7% of their total workforce in the months to come. Aside from...
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Man Tricks Girlfriend on Facebook, Imprisoned
In Great Britain, a man has been jailed for seven years for tricking his girlfriend into performing sex acts online through the use of...
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Madoff ‘Disappointed’ Mets Fraud Suit Was Settled
The Notorious Ponzi sceme perpetrator, Bernie Madoff was in contact with Irving Picard last week to express his disappointment in the Mets fraud case not going to trial. The fraud...
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Insurance Agent Sentenced to do 6 Years After Stealing $1 Million from Clients
After stealing over one million dollars from her elderly clients, the former Issaquah insurance agent could spend up to six years and three months in the can. Jasmine Jamrus-Ka...
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SAT Fraud and Entrepreneurs
New York State's Kenneth LaValle, chairman of the New York Senate Higher Education Committee is proposing legislation that would make any kind of fraud on the SAT's a felony. The a...
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New iPad Scam Leaves Customers Without an Apple
Some Canadian citizens are getting a surprise after purchasing their new iPads. Reports from a few consumers around the Vancouver area say that they have been scammed! Excited abou...
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FBI: Massive Fraudulent Online Ad Scheme Affected More Than 4 Million Computers
According to the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, at least 4 million computers in over 100 different countries fell victim to a giant fraud scheme that involved a sophisticated...
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