Jerome Kerviel - Genius of Fraud Background: Imagine growing up in a working class European family that is getting by but is by no means rick. You ’ve done well in undergraduate college and are on the verge of graduating with a Masters in Finance from a reputable university but didn ’t do much to differentiate yourself while there. After grad school‚ you receive an offer for a middle office position at a large investment bank who guaranteed there ’s room to grow into a trading position‚ you
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not make this agreement. I am writing to dispute the following item with BMW Financial Services Canada. The account and transaction referred by you in your correspondence‚ I dispute was opened and made by the thief‚ not by me. I never authorized‚ used‚ or benefited from this account (number 417913) or transactions in any way. I state that I do not have an Agreement in my possession and I have never signed an agreement with BMW Financial Services Canada or any other services adjoined with your
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom Vanessa Gail Woods Strayer University Connor-Green/ACC 576 March 21‚ 2010 Accounting Fraud at WorldCom The break up of AT&T opened the long distance service market to small companies during the mid- to late-1980s and 1990s. Long Distance Discount Service (LDDS) opened in 1983 with moderate growth until its stock went public in 1989. CEO Bernie Ebbers decided to grow the organization through acquisitions (70 companies over the course of its lifetime)
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The fraud at DHB Industries developed directly from collusion of upper-management‚ poor oversight by the board of directors‚ and equity based compensation. Knapp and Knapp (2012) note the constant involvement of Brooks‚ Hatfield‚ and Schlegel in falsifying accounting records and attempting to conceal the fraud. With the ability to override controls within the company which identify such irregularities‚ the involvement of practically all executives allowed for the concealment of the fraud to occur
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ZZZZ Best Company Fraud Case Study 1) At an early age‚ Barry Minkow was introduced to the carpet cleaning industry by his mother who worked part time as a telephone solicitor for a small carpet cleaning company. This insight of the industry allowed Minkow to understand that the carpet cleaning industry was one which had very few barriers to entry‚ no licensing requirements‚ and required only a small amount of capital to enter. Also‚ because of these few barriers to entry‚ the industry has historically
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Jones left the company to start his own business‚ he began holding courses on taking care of finances. He then launched a company he called “Earl Jones Consultant and Administration Corporation‚ an administrative and financial advising” (Gazette‚ 2010). He began to make withdrawals from his bank account‚ into which he deposited his client’s money. Earl Jones is a “White Collar Criminal” which is “members of the rich and powerful who used their positions for personal gain ignoring the law and the consequences
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Salami Fraud (1) by M. E. Kabay‚ PhD‚ CISSP Associate Professor‚ Computer Information Systems Norwich University‚ Northfield VT The recent disclosure that WorldCom concealed almost $4 billion of expenses as if they were asset acquisitions and thus falsified its accounting reminds me of the very opposite kind of fraud – one that involves lots of little thefts instead of one gigantic theft. In the _salami fraud_‚ criminals steal money or resources a tiny bit at a time. Two different etymologies are
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A criminal case was brought against four former employees of Patton State Hospital‚ for the several felonies which included the theft of unearned payroll for approximately $800‚000. All the defendants are stated to have received pay for hours they did not work. These thefts were alleged to have happened between August 2007 and March 2011. ("Former Patton State Hospital employees charged in $800‚000 payroll fraud case‚" n.d.) After criminal charges were filed‚ the State’s Controller’s office released
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Introduction: Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes statistically according to the Federal Trade Commission. Roughly 27.3 million Americans have fallen victim to this form of theft/fraud. According to last year the loss of money for businesses and financial institutions are in the billions and with consumers out of pocket expenses has been about 5 billion dollars. "Identity theft" refers to crimes in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person’s personal data (i.e.‚ name
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had sold it for) after the company had filed for bankruptcy in 1991. Silverman quickly took Hospitality Franchise Systems public in a 1992 IPO. HFS was among the fastest growing companies of its size in the 1990s and the company’s stock had risen from its IPO price of $4 per share to $77 per share by 1998. The company made a brief foray into the casino industry‚ but then spun off that business in November 1994 as National Gaming.[1] In 1996‚ Cendant purchased Sierra On-Line and Davidson & Associates
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