Fraud Examination Executive Summary: Miniscribe By Samantha Altieri‚ Zac Biesiada‚ Dan Cohen‚ and Tim Foley BACC 552 Miniscribe was a computer disk drive manufacturing company that was founded in 1981 by Terry Johnson. The company was initially run out of basement of Mr. Johnson’s home in Longmont‚ Colorado. Shortly after becoming a publicly traded company in 1983‚ Miniscribe began to experience financial losses. (United States v. Patrick J. Schleibaum) In 1985 the venture capital firm
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information from customers in order to sell the information or to make fraudulent purchases using a stolen identity. • Illegal Insider Trading: This occurs when an insider has authority to make investments on behalf of the bank‚ and engages in high risk trades without the bank being aware of it. A series of illegal trades gone wrong can cause enough damage to put a bank out of business. • Fraudulent Loans: Fraudulent loans can occur when a loan officer within a bank forges documents‚ creates
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The indictments issued August 28th charged that reserve accounts were reduced in order to provide credits against line expenses. b) In your opinion‚ why do managers of WorldCom want to manage their earnings and subsequently be engaged in fraudulent activities? In my opinion the main reason why the managers of WorldCom want to manage their earnings which then subsequent leads the to be
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This can involve insider trading‚ music pirating‚ not paying taxes‚ or telecommunication fraud. Such broad spectrum can involve any person in every social class. Furthermore‚ the types of fraudulent activities can easily be social stratified. For example‚ a Wal-Mart cashier would probably never be involved in insider trading or bank embezzlement‚ yet she/he could fail to pay taxes or steal credit card data from customers. On the other hand
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desperate ambition to succeed fueled with the accounting skills the company was in a prime position to engage in fraudulent practices. The tone at the top did not set a code of ethics‚ instead wanted to maximize their value of the futuristic software. The first questionable accounting practice was the series of complex financing plans dreamed up by Mr. Hauspie- this was unethical and fraudulent. The second practice was sales to customers who had financial ties with the company- this can be on the border
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routine. Much like a devil hidden behind the mask of a savior‚ the Pardoner preaches the very idea of forgiveness that he does not believe in or even takes any interest in. As he is blinded by the avarice for money‚ the Pardoner is characterized as fraudulent yet charismatic with the use of simile and allusion. To which the Pardoner proclaimed‚ he knew of a tale that would reach out to the majority of mankind as most if not everyone had once felt the evil inside to achieve wealth against morality. Furthermore
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and is still working in that field. Abstract The vast growth of the payment card industry (PCI) in the last 50 years has placed the industry in the centre of attention‚ not only because of this growth‚ but also because of the increase of fraudulent transactions. The conducted research in this domain has JIBC December 2009‚ Vol. 14‚ No. 3 produced statistical reports on detection of fraud‚ and ways of protection. On the other hand‚ the relevant body of research is quite partial
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According to an article published October 11‚ 2016‚ Wells Fargo Bank has had substantial ethical and fraudulent issues for several years (Cowley‚ 2016). There are reports of misuse in reporting and fraudulent activity dating back to the year 2005. A Los Angeles city attorney filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo in May 2015 (Cowley‚ 2016). This lawsuit was filed to bring light to the creation of unauthorized accounts by Wells Fargo Bank and the organization’s employees. Wells Fargo was accused of
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Question 1. Assessing the Fraud Risk Factors: High Risk factors and Low Risk Factors. High Risk Factors: 1. Management’s attitude towards overriding controls: Section 5‚ under topic Integrity and ethical values‚ of the questionnaire suggests that override could occur without management’s approval‚ manager’s override is not explicitly prohibited and no interventions by the management were observed. 2. The Degree of oversight related to the company’s control structure exercised by the management:
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However‚ IFRET’s previous research (Qualitative Research on Marriage-Based Immigration Benefit Fraud Detection) identified a number of strategies employed by ISOs to stop fraudulent cases from continuing through the adjudication process including denying petitions for other reasons (in which case‚ the “fraud” is not captured in USCIS data systems) and issuing a Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID). Each of these strategies demonstrate
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