Sentences with phrase «by fraud of»

If a consumer has entrusted money to a real estate licensee or an unlicensed individual acting on behalf of a brokerage and that money has been misappropriated or wrongfully converted, intentionally not paid over or accounted for, or obtained by the fraud of that licensee or individual, the consumer may wish to make a claim against the Real Estate Special Compensation Fund.

A judgment can not be set aside unless it was obtained by the fraud of a party or fraud procured by a party.

(h) the award was the result of fraud or corruption by a member of the arbitral tribunal or obtained by fraud of a party or its representatives in the conduct of the arbitration [distinguished from fraud with respect to the original dispute being arbitrated].

If he is undertaking with care that which he was retained or instructed to do, he will not readily be found to have nevertheless warranted to be responsible for a misfortune caused by the fraud of another.

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A previous report by the IG released back in 2010 cited cases of fraud totaling $ 724 million.

It's complicated, but under the new rules, if a customer walks into a store with a chip card and the store hasn't updated its point - of - sale equipment to accept chip cards, the merchant is liable for any fraud that occurs from using the card the old way, by swiping the magnetic stripe.

In the U.K., for example counterfeit fraud, which is the most common type of credit card crime, has fallen by nearly 60 percent since it implemented EMV in 2005.

Bitconnect had recently been accused of running a Ponzi scheme — the financial fraud most famously perpetrated by Bernie Madoff — by several influential investors, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and billionaire cryptocurrency investor Mike Novogratz.

She cites particularly the inclusion of a fraud exemption that would allow the use of data by non-specialist bodies like businesses to tackle fraud cases.

To protect the buyers, the company will be introducing a purchase protection mechanism that helps minimize the risk of scams and fraud by providing full payment protection, acting as a third - party mediator during the transaction, and ensuring the delivery of the paid - for product or service.

The banks are apparently spooked by reports of a rise in fraud activity over the system and are looking to add a secondary verification measure, such as requiring users to input a PIN code.

Banking also offers some tantalizing practical applications for deep - learning innovators, too; of the three possibilities listed by Agrafioti — personalized AI - driven customer service, real - time fraud prevention and risk management — it's the last one that might appeal most to those interested in industry disruption.

The study, by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, revealed that the smallest companies accounted for 30 percent of the fraud cases it studied, compared to just 20 percent for organizations with more than 10,000 employees.

Employee fraud is extremely common across various industries, but by taking precautions during the recruitment process and successfully maintaining the correct level of data protection throughout your workforce, you can ensure online and offline transactions are processed securely.

Berlusconi, who has been sentenced for tax fraud and is on trial accused of having sex with an under - aged prostitute, is reported to have made rude remarks about Merkel's appearance in a phone call wiretapped by investigators, though he denies this.

But card fraud has been prevalent — 14 % of in - store monthly transactions contain a fraud attempt, a figure that ticks up to around 40 % online, and 15.4 million US consumers were hit by identity fraud last year — and remains expensive for merchants.

Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «pharma bro» — and infamous for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.

September 14 - The Sunday Times reports the UK Serious Fraud Office is looking into evidence surrounding allegations of possible money laundering and financial fraud, brought against 1MDB by the UK - based Sarawak Report.

By game time, all of that was forgotten, as was the shameful number of concussions to student athletes, the academic fraud, the rash of criminal behaviour and countless other scandals that continue to swirl around U.S. college football.

The carmaker had sought to delay the consumer - fraud trials because of comments made by Melkersen, including remarks in a Netflix documentary where he compared emissions testing on monkeys to the Nazi use of poison gas in World War II.

While nobody has measured the prevalence of fraud, Lloyd Chapman, who heads the American Small Business League, notes that firms are unlikely to be deterred by the government's record of enforcement — not one firm has been prosecuted for falsely representing itself as small.

For example, if you're marketing a milkshake supplement and guarantee that customers will shed 20 pounds per month just by drinking it, this could be a clear case of misrepresentation or fraud.

A new study by AARP shows that a combination of online behaviors and life experiences can make someone more vulnerable to fraud.

The infographic below, compiled by Chargeback.com, an anti-credit card fraud company, details the past, present and future of customer payments.

Often, that translates to employees on the front lines stealing patient medical data or client social security numbers, which can then be sold on the black market or used to commit fraud like collecting someone else's social security benefits, opening new credit card accounts in another's name, or applying for health insurance by assuming the identity of someone else.

One rare issue that's been reported by Airbnb hosts is that guests invade the designated private areas of the host's property when the host isn't home to steal or make copies of personal documents that provide the information needed for identity theft or other types of financial fraud.

When asked about the recent and spectacular downfall of Theranos, the blood diagnostics unicorn whose founder Elizabeth Holmes was recently accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of fraud, Roberts said he doesn't think there will be another Theranos.

However, the entities incorporated by CASPERSEN (the «Fake Funds») were merely shell companies created by CASPERSEN solely for the purpose of perpetrating his fraud scheme, and were in no way affiliated with or authorized by the Legitimate Funds.

Byron Fitzgerald, Manager of the Litigation Section of the CBSA would later characterize the argument made by Finance and the Conservative Party that iPods could come into the country tariff free under 9948 using end use certificates is «perpetuating a fraud»:

«IBM and Verizon, by their silence, facilitated this fraud,» Richard Condon, special commissioner of investigation for the city's schools, concluded in the report.

SAC has been charged with four counts of securities fraud and one count of wire fraud, according to the 41 - page sealed indictment, which has been posted by Reuters.

One question posed by Fortune's article was whether Daiichi Sankyo knew the extent and depth of any fraud and the extent of Ranbaxy's problems with the FDA.

Look to the tragic story of Aaron Swartz, the tech wunderkind whose 2013 suicide is thought to have been caused by the stress of fighting U.S. prosecutors over fraud charges.

Under the rules handed down by the Fed last year, the cap for debit - card fees was set at 21 cents per transaction, plus 0.05 percent of the value of the purchase and a 1 - cent fraud - prevention fee for the big banks.

SNC - Lavalin has pleaded not guilty to the one fraud and one corruption charge filed by the RCMP against SNC - Lavalin and two of its subsidiaries.

One of the federal government's low income phone subsidy programs is bedeviled by fraud, a watchdog agency investigation concluded.

One way in which Adform suggests the industry clamps down on ad fraud is by using ads.txt, a tool created by the Interactive Advertising Bureau to protect buyers and sellers of online advertising.

Even before being hit with a federal securities fraud lawsuit by the SEC and independent perjury charges by the DOJ last month, the founder of a now - defunct cryptocurrency exchange had left a trail of lawsuits.

Pitino offered a statement on Tuesday, saying that «these third - party schemes, initiated by a few bad actors, operated to commit a fraud on the impacted universities and basketball programs, including the University of Louisville.»

Keep in mind, by fraud we mean creating fake campaigns or companies, which is different from the legal concept of fraud which focuses on false representation.

Of those victimized by identity theft while traveling, 55 percent stated it took from weeks to more than a year to resolve issues related to identity fraud, the survey found.

NEW DELHI / MUMBAI, Feb 27 - A company owned by Nirav Modi, the billionaire jeweler at the heart of a $ 2 billion fraud case in India, has filed for bankruptcy in a New York court, as investigators stepped up their investigation into a case that has stunned the country.

Over the years, the SIGAR auditing effort has revealed many dubious practices by the US, including instances of contractor fraud.

Derek Nettles, IT director of Dickie Brennan & Company, believed that in addition to facilitating the payment dance between diner and waiter, such a system would allow the company to accept EMV (chip - enabled) cards ahead of the fall 2015 deadline established by the credit card industry, when restaurants without that capability may be held financially liable for fraud.

But by adding an act of terrorism on American soil to his securities fraud, Le Chiffre dramatically increased the odds of prosecution under U.S. laws greatly strengthened after 9/11.

The specter of Internet fraud has made it tougher for small e-merchants to navigate the maze of credit card processing fees charged by banks.

The specter of Internet fraud has made it tougher for a small E-merchant to navigate the byzantine maze of credit - card - processing fees charged by banks — if it can get an E-merchant account at all.

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch told CNBC Tuesday he was «shocked» by allegations of accounting fraud, which caused HP to post an $ 8.8 billion charge and sent its stock reeling.

A previous survey released by the company found that small businesses are particularly vulnerable to fraud due to a lack of internal reviews.

Moore, whose campaign filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.