The postscript also will relate subsequent important events in the telecommunications industry‚ the effect of WorldCom’s problems on its competitors and labor market‚ and the impact WorldCom had on the lives of the key players associated with the fraud and its exposure. From Benchmark to Bankrupt Between July 2002 when WorldCom declared bankruptcy and April 2004 when it emerged from bankruptcy as MCI‚ company officials worked feverishly to restate the financials and reorganize the company. The
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Check • Bureau Credit Characteristics • Consumer Portfolio review reports 2005 • Direct Consumer Access • CIBIL TransUnion Score • 0.6 million commercial records • 4 million consumer records • First central repository on Fraud and Mortgage • CIBIL Watchlist • CIBIL Custom Solutions 2007 2009 CIBIL is the leading CIC in India Accelerates solution offerings Changes in regulatory environment brought about significant developments in the Indian credit
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WEB TECHNOLOGIES Click Fraud Bernard J. Jansen The Pennsylvania State University Unchecked‚ click fraud could undermine the sponsored search business model. T oday‚ Web search engines are the primary method for millions of users throughout the world to access information on a topic‚ navigate to Web sites‚ keep up with the news‚ and shop online. Most major search engines generate revenue via sponsored search‚ a process whereby content providers pay for traffic from specific links
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family. Shockingly enough‚ there were no children to begin with. The women who promised their unborn children to the people‚ who were interested in adopting‚ were not even pregnant. At least six couples in the Midwest were victimized by this adoption fraud scheme. For example‚ in a Florida case a woman contacted over a dozen victims through a forum/ Internet site for people who were looking to adopt a child‚ and posted that she knew a women who was about to “give birth”. All she asked of the adopting
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Background of the company Parmalat Finanziaria SpA‚ an Italian food giant started out as a family business specializing in dairy products. It was founded in 1961 by 22 year old Calisto Tanzi‚ who discontinued his studies to expand his father’s sausage and cheese shop. It began as a small pasteurization plant in Parma and further expanded into cheese‚ yoghurt‚ cookies‚ fruit juice and ready-made sauce production that are under different names in each country. They were the ones to produce the world’s
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Stone Unturned” written by Eric Lee talks about him being a certified fraud examiner. He talks about how little pieces of info can lead up to solving crimes and a key procedure on how to go about doing it. An example that he gives in his article is a Ponzi scheme. He mentions that the suspects would place advertisements in the newspapers all around the country promising high returns on their investments. He mentions that the fraud was very simple and reasonable. He said that for $1‚500 dollars‚ an
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Cyber-crimes can be divided into two broad categories; the first category involves attacks on computer hardware and software tools‚ such as botnets‚ network intrusions‚ and malware. The category involves cybercrimes of financial nature such as online fraud and penetration of online financial services (Brenner‚ 2010). Others include phishing‚ corporate account takeover and theft of intellectual properties. Cyber-crimes are committed across geographical boundaries‚ with the perpetrators taking advantage
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Chelsie Akers 1: What is a cybercrime in your own words? Cybercrime‚ also called computer crime because the use of a computer is used as tool to help people meet their illegal ends. Some cybercrime examples are committing fraud‚ trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property‚ stealing other peoples identity‚ or violating privacy of others. 2: What is the extent of cybercrime in the United States? Cyber crimes here in the United States are becoming very
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Brothers Holdings Inc. Chapter 11 Proceedings Examiner’s Report). “Attorney general Andrew Cuomo later filed charges against the bank ’s auditors Ernst & Young in December 2010‚ alleging that the firm "substantially assisted... a massive accounting fraud" by approving the accounting treatment” (LATTMAN‚ 2010). Lastly‚ on April 12‚ 2010 a story broke about the incident concerning Lehman in the New York Times‚ Lehman was caught using a small firm name Hudson Castle‚ they used it to “move a number of
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3001 Individual Report SID : 1155014517 Name : LI‚ Min In 2013‚ China Metal Recycling Ltd. was accused by The Security and Future Commission in Hong Kong as it was involved in accounting fraud. It exaggerated accounts for loan‚ land and its warehouse receipts in its public offering financial statements for 2009. Also‚ its main subsidiary’s revenue was deliberately inflated according to powerful evidence. As a result‚ the CEO‚ Jacky Chun
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