Sentences with phrase «accounting fraud schemes»

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The already stretched «white - collar» task forces of the FBI focus on wide - ranging schemes like Internet, insurance, and Medicare fraud, abandoning traditional securities and accounting offenses to the SEC.

The warning came in a report by the Commons» influential public accounts committee which attacks the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for not doing enough to detect evidence of fraud at A4e, one of the biggest firms it has paid to implement welfare - to - work schemes.

Adapted from the best - selling memoir by Jordan Belfort, the Bronx - born trader whose «pump - and - dump» schemes and penny - stock frauds made him millions - leaving duped investors with busted bank accounts - The Wolf of Wall Street tracks the rise and fall of its merrily debauched antihero, from his brief stint at an old - money brokerage house to his drug - fueled glory days as the CEO of an epic con.

Born in 1967, Barry Minkow went on to set up a highly successful carpet cleaning company but was imprisoned in 1988 for one of the world's largest investment and accounting frauds through a Ponzi scheme.

Just last month in the beginning of May, the Student Loan Report ran a story about a «sugar daddy» scheme that targeted «sugar babies» with student debt; the fraud here involved stolen bank account information and empty promises via phony checks.

Read about expert advisor software frauds, forex broker scams, managed account HYIP frauds, Ponzi schemes and signal generator scams.

So your dad already has bad notices on his records for falling for fraud traps and asking for refund too many times... and you had to open up a new account in your name for this, and you are asking whether this scheme, which is dubious to you, is setting off all kinds of alarms in your head, is maybe a fraud?

White - collar crime generally includes securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, mortgage fraud, health care fraud, bankruptcy fraud, insider trading, computer and Internet fraud, financial and accounting fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, conspiracy, telemarketing fraud, commodities and futures fraud, business opportunity schemes, tax fraud, identity theft, credit card fraud, FEMA fraud, perjury, obstruction of justice, criminal contempt, bribery, public corruption, and economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.

Massachusetts lawyers continue to be successfully targeted by email and internet fraud schemes which many times involve IOLTA accounts.

The new Cyber Unit was launched by the SEC in September to focus on problems like ICO fraud, «misconduct» on the dark web, hacks aimed at stealing nonpublic information, intrusions into retail brokerage accounts, market manipulation schemes involving «false information spread through electronic and social media,» and cyber threats to market infrastructure like trading platform.

Twitter users are collectively being conned out of tens of thousands of dollars per day via fraud schemes involving accounts impersonating...

Twitter users are collectively being conned out of tens of thousands of dollars per day via fraud schemes involving accounts impersonating celebrities, including Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin, the man behind the Ethereum cryptocurrency.