Sentences with phrase «false accounts from»

Wehner admits that Facebook has increased its estimation of false accounts from 1 percent last quarter to 2 percent to 3 percent this quarter, or 41 million to 62 million monthly active users.

Not exact matches

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

But Woolsey's statements to the Journal and CNN, and the FARA filing now suggest this was either false or a woefully incomplete account of the client and the purpose of Flynn's work — that Flynn was actually advising the Turkish government about the extrajudicial removal of a green card holder from the United States.

«This book is filled with false and misleading accounts from individuals who have no access or influence with the White House,» press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said about Michael Wolff's book» Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.»

On the contrary, the bank executive most responsible for the false accounts debacle departed from Wells back in 2016 with a tidy $ 67 million in severance pay.

Teesside Crown Court heard that did not prevent him from posting on a new account a false apology for being a «white Christian who has values for life».

I suspect that such sentiment accounts for much of the theologically naive approval of Dr. Benke's participation within LCMS circles, but it distracts us from the real issues, from the life or death question which we must finally face: How does a Christian presence distinguish itself from the false gods at such an event?

Haigh resigned as Managing Director of the Elland Road club last year, and has now been accused of some staggering cases of fraud, involving printing false invoices for large sums of money to be transferred into his bank account from various companies that Gulf Finance House (GFH) had done business with.

What would stop a person from opening up multiple accounts with false e-mail addresses, and would this not encourage more spam attacks?

Wolff's book — «filled with false and misleading accounts», according to the White House — soared from 48,449 th on Amazon's bestselling books list to No 1.

Dell Smitherman, a former Local 1199SEIU political director, filed petitions with 4,000 signatures — four times the number required to get on the ballot — to take on Sampson, who was indicted for allegedly stealing from housing escrow accounts and making false statements.

It said it was also false that a fresh N25 billion loan was applied for; saying that; «the only fresh loan taken by the government of Fayose was the N10 billion grant from the Excess Crude Account, which was released to all States for capital projects, N2.8 billion requested from Wema Bank to pay State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) counterpart fund out of which N1 billion has been accessed and N600 million for MDGs counterpart fund, which has been repaid.»

«That you Mohammed Ahmed Katun while serving as an Assistant Director, Pension Department of the Office of Head of Service of the Federation on or about the 14th day of August, 2009 within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, obtained by false pretences and with intent to defraud various sums of money amounting in the aggregate to N24, 660,675.00 (Twenty Four Million, Six Hundred and Sixty Thousand, Six Hundred and Seventy Five Naira only) from the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Pension Account held by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation of Nigeria through fraudulent payments described as collective allowances into your bank account maintained with Ecobank Nigeria Limited (former Oceanic International Bank Plc) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.Account held by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation of Nigeria through fraudulent payments described as collective allowances into your bank account maintained with Ecobank Nigeria Limited (former Oceanic International Bank Plc) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.account maintained with Ecobank Nigeria Limited (former Oceanic International Bank Plc) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.»

Accuracy — sourcing or redistributing false information from social media without sufficient fact verification — was the most frequently raised topic and accounted for 17.8 percent of the total sentences studied.

A false tweet from a hacked account owned by the Associated Press (AP) in 2013 sent financial markets into a tailspin.

The analyzed studies, published from 1994 to 2015, focused on false social and political news accounts, including misinformation in reports of robberies; investigations of a warehouse fire and traffic accident; the supposed existence of «death panels» in the 2010 Affordable Care Act; positions of political candidates on Medicaid; and a report on whether a candidate had received donations from a convicted felon.

One process for creating the necessary conditions is reported in From Fear to Facebook, the first - person account of one California principal who endured a series of false starts to finally arrive at a place where students in his school were maximizing their use of laptops and participatory technologies without the constant distractions of misuse (Levinson, 2010).

They may threaten to take possession of some property (car etc) or take part of your wages from your bank account, but these are false threats - they can not do this.

Prohibited acts.A credit services organization, a salesperson, agent, or representative of a credit services organization, or an independent contractor who sells or attempts to sell the services of a credit services organization shall not: (1) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration before completing performance of all services, other than those described in subdivision (2) of this section, which the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer unless the credit services organization has obtained a surety bond or established and maintained a surety account as provided in section 45 - 805; (2) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration for obtaining or attempting to obtain an extension of credit that the credit services organization has agreed to obtain for the buyer before the extension of credit is obtained; (3) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is substantially the same as that available to the general public; (4) Make or use a false or misleading representation in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization, including (a) guaranteeing to erase bad credit or words to that effect unless the representation clearly discloses that this can be done only if the credit history is inaccurate or obsolete and (b) guaranteeing an extension of credit regardless of the person's previous credit problem or credit history unless the representation clearly discloses the eligibility requirements for obtaining an extension of credit; (5) Engage, directly or indirectly, in a fraudulent or deceptive act, practice, or course of business in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; (6) Make or advise a buyer to make a statement with respect to a buyer's credit worthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity that is false or misleading or that should be known by the exercise of reasonable care to be false or misleading to a consumer reporting agency or to a person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit; or (7) Advertise or cause to be advertised, in any manner whatsoever, the services of a credit services organization without filing a registration statement with the Secretary of State under section 45 - 806 unless otherwise provided by the Credit Services Organization Act.

There is a full length of scam plans, like sending you false checks to deposit and ask you withdrew money to send them back to even having very big incoming transaction to your account sitting idle on your account which might originate from a crime beyond the financial domain.

If the game had false advertising (which is an ambiguous point when it comes to Early Access games) or if it was making an effort to extract personal details and take money from your account, etc, etc; then yes, the game could be considered fraudulent and illegal.

CASL was intended to protect people from receiving unsolicited commercial electronic messages via email, social networking accounts and text messages, as well as to combat false representations of products and services promoted online.

In the same vein, it must be clear from the context of the statement that the person making it intended it to be received as a truthful account and not a mere parody or satire which was intended to be understood as false.

denied, 540 U.S. 825 (2003): In reviewing charges stemming from a pro-prosecution judicial campaign, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the pledge or promise clause, the commit clause, and the clause prohibiting false statements or misrepresentations about an opponent (in this case, giving a misleading account of the incumbent's granting bail in a particular case) of the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct.

Someone involved in making an entry in an account which could be misleading, false or deceptive in a a significant way, or who leaves out something relevant from an account or other document, is treated as having falsified the document (or account).

In 2017, last year, during the special election, the senate seat in Alabama, we deployed some new AI tools that we built to detect fake accounts that were trying to spread false news and we found a lot of different accounts coming from Macedonia.

An all - too - familiar pet peeve for those who dutifully line up to get the newest and most promising flagship phone from a company: software and OS updates that take too long to reach customers, all the while becoming riddled with delays, snags, snafus and false promises that account to the disappointment companies incur by withholding release of updates.

«Other people associated with the company told police about alleged irregularities with the trust account and «false sales» to get commissions from the Ontario company» according to the ITO (Information To Obtain) search warrant.