Sentences with phrase «fraudulent money schemes»

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Immigrants» money was originally administered by provincially managed venture capital funds; before recent reforms, some of it went to dubious or fraudulent schemes.

He qualified his optimism by cautioning that the «use of cryptocurrencies also carries serious risks,» including money laundering, tax evasion, the financing of terrorism, and fraudulent schemes targeting laypeople.

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money, or the money paid by subsequent investors, instead of from profit earned by the individuals running the business.

As such, I have lost a lot of money on such scams and fraudulent schemes.

Other measures include tougher action to halt the transfer of money from occupational pension schemes into fraudulent ones

While «not being fraudulent» isn't something to boast about, it's good to know that Interracial Cupid doesn't sink to these low - level money making schemes.

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service and the are aware of several fraudulent schemes or scams that involve what are Many people jump at the opportunity to make money quick when it presents itself.

One in ten Canadians say they have actually invested money in what turned out to be a fraudulent scheme.

They may even engage in more specific activities, such as using your identity to file for a fraudulent income tax return, or participate in a mortgage scheme that enables them to run off with large amounts of money after the closing.

This latest push to regulate the art market comes after testimony three weeks ago at a closed - door session of the House Financial Services Committee in which prosecutors from the Department of Justice and NY District Attorney's Office gave testimony about recent cases, such as the recent indictment in the Eastern District of New York of six individuals and four corporations in a $ 50 million money laundering scheme in which an undercover agent purchase a Pablo Picasso painting to launder fraudulent profits from a stock manipulation scheme.

18 U.S.C. § 1343 provides: «Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.»

After the lawyer completes the work but before the client has succeeded in getting any money from the target investors, the lawyer discovers that the client's scheme is an entirely fraudulent endeavor.

Mortgage Fund»08 Financial Fraud: PSW represents a liquidating trustee in an action arising out of a fraudulent financial scheme perpetrated by the managers of real estate hard money lender Mortgage Fund» 08.

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The CFTC Complaint alleges that from approximately January 2017 to the present, Mcdonnell and CDM engaged in a deceptive and fraudulent virtual currency scheme to induce customers to send money and virtual currencies to CDM, purportedly in exchange for real - time virtual currency trading advice and for virtual currency purchasing and trading on behalf of the customers under Mcdonnell's direction.

After Facebook, Twitter and Google officially announced a ban on crypto ads in wake of the money laundering and increasing fraudulent schemes online, now it seems things are going the other way round.

«The CFTC Complaint alleges that from approximately January 2017 to the present, McDonnell and CDM engaged in a deceptive and fraudulent virtual currency scheme to induce customers to send money and virtual currencies to CDM, purportedly in exchange for real - time virtual currency trading advice and for virtual currency purchasing and trading on behalf of the customers under McDonnell's direction,» reads the official lawsuit announcement.

There are fraudulent, irresponsible raising of money, Ponzi schemes and people should be wary of that.

The government claims that it has implemented these policies to prevent pyramid schemes, money laundering, and other fraudulent activities associated with the cryptocurrency industry.

According to an insider familiar with the matter, Yicai explains that the investigators are looking for possible Ponzi schemes, fraudulent trading activities, tax evasion, and money laundering crimes.

Officials have reportedly suggested that banks should suspend service to clients found to have engaged in cryptocurrency trading under the pretense of preventing pyramid schemes, money laundering, and other fraudulent activities the government has attributed to cryptoassets.

The most common ones in the cryptocurrency investment space are high yield investment schemes (HYIPs), which promise high daily or weekly returns but are nothing more than Ponzi schemes and fraudulent initial coin offerings, where the perpetrators raise funds for a fictitious blockchain project and then disappear with the money as it was the case with Confido.

In the second case, the CFTC alleges that Patrick K. McDonnell and his company CabbageTech «engaged in a deceptive and fraudulent virtual currency scheme to induce customers to send money and virtual currencies to CDM, purportedly in exchange for real - time virtual currency trading advice and for virtual currency purchasing and trading on behalf of the customers under McDonnell's direction.

Job seekers are bombarded with spam all the time — career firms offering a «free resume review» (of course they will find problems and offer to fix for a fee), multi-level marketing plans, get - rich - quick schemes, fraudulent emails pretending to originate from reputable sites, and scammers advertising job opportunities but who are trying to get money or steal the job seeker's identity.What can you do to protect yourself and avoid wasting time with spam, while still being open to real job opportunities and services that can help your job search?