Sentences with phrase «of frauds reported»

INDEPENDENT.CO.UK - July 18 - «Dating scams» have contributed to a 27 % increase in the number of frauds reported.

At 48 percent, employee embezzlement was the most common type of fraud reported.

The agency has no record of your fraud report and considers you responsible for the debt.

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

The report doesn't specifically quantify the extent of the fraud, and a spokesperson for the IG said she was unable to immediately provide an accurate figure.

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.

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.

Papa's assurances lost some weight however when reports emerged two days later that the company was still under criminal investigation for potential insurance fraud related to its ties to specialty pharmaceutical Philidor — which erased all of the stock's recent gains.

Shares in Sino - Forest, a TSX - listed company that operates forestry plantations in China, have plummeted 68 % since a research firm issued an extensive report on Thursday accusing the company of committing a fraud of «stratospheric» proportions.

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.

According to a report from Bloomberg, Greebel was convicted of conspiring to commit wire fraud and securities fraud.

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.

The FBI raided Cohen's office and hotel room earlier this month as part of a criminal investigation into whether Cohen violated campaign finance laws or committed bank fraud, The Washington Post reported.

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

«I called the author of the Pew report last night and he told me that they found no evidence of voter fraud,» Muir said.

In a new report from BI Intelligence, we look at how the dynamics of fraud are shifting across in - store and online channels and provide infographics explaining the top new types of security that are gaining traction across each of these channels, including on Apple Pay.

But those feverish buyers soon got a bitter lesson when Valeant shares came crashing back down more than 10 % on Thursday, erasing much of their earlier gains, after a report that the company was under criminal investigation for potential insurance fraud.

Creditors may be able to pierce the corporate veil that separates a company from its owners» personal assets in cases of fraud, when the entities are inextricably linked, or when the company fails to adhere to the basic legal and reporting requirements.

Gates was charged with 24 counts related to tax fraud, bank fraud, bank - fraud conspiracy, and failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.

According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners annual report, nearly half of all small businesses experience fraud at some point in their business lifecycle.

As Mother Jones and the Food and Environment Reporting Network reported earlier this year, Rafael oversaw one of the «biggest fisheries frauds in American history.»

The letter made several allegations of fraud at Silvercorp — most importantly, that its reported profit of US$ 66 million in 2010 was a lie and it had instead lost half a million dollars, plus that its reserve estimates were exaggerated.

Crowdfunding research website TheCrowdCafe also reported zero incidents of fraud in the six major platforms it monitors.

In the U.S., romance frauds account for the highest financial losses of all internet - facilitated crimes, the FBI reports.

If you think you are a victim of identity theft or tax fraud, you should report it to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Hewlett - Packard reported a $ 8.8 billion accounting charge relating to allegations of fraud tied to the acquisition of its Autonomy software unit.

However, this is where there have been some reports of fraud.

Fraud can plague any business — organizations report losing 5 percent of their annual revenue to fraud.

A new SEC initiative that will pave the way for individual investors to participate in crowdfunding — Internet - based fundraising for young companies — may also expose investors to potential frauds, according to Randy Shain, founder of BackTrack Reports and an expert in investigative due diligence for the investment community.

Some of these individuals were whipped into a frenzy of social media activity when J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon called bitcoin «a fraud,» a comment that he later reported regretting.

Combine that with the world's melting pot of pragmatic bankers and regulators — throw in a spice of reporting, fraud, an open mind, crooks, capitalism, the world's biggest technology companies, and some passionate but slightly confusing people — and you've got a circus.

While there is no such thing as a 100 % foolproof strategy to protect you against fraud (although divvying your portfolio up into 30 - 40 stocks worth 2.5 % to 3.33 % of your overall wealth seems like a damn good defense mechanism), putting most of your money into stocks with records of growing dividends seems like an intelligent way to guard against corporate fraud, particularly if you have limited familiarity with reading 10 - Ks, annual reports, and other financial statements.

Jesse Eisinger, writing for the New Yorker, reported that the SEC attorney, James Kidney, who was in charge of bringing the ABACUS case to trial, wrote in an email to his boss at the SEC that it was an «unbelievable fraud.»

Its price has been volatile, soaring over recent years but falling sharply earlier this month on reports that China will order all bitcoin exchanges to close and one of the world's most high - profile investment bankers said bitcoin was a fraud.

If we fail to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results or prevent fraud.

Update: The Washington Post reports that Cohen «is under federal federal investigation for possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations,» citing three people with knowledge of the case.

Entities that may still have access to your Equifax credit file include: companies like Equifax Global Consumer Solutions which provide you with access to your credit report or credit score, or monitor your credit file; federal, state, and local government agencies; companies reviewing your application for employment; companies that have a current account or relationship with you, and collection agencies acting on behalf of those whom you owe; for fraud detection purposes; and companies that wish to make pre-approved offers of credit or insurance to you.

According to reports, the companies were concerned about the ability of customers to pay for their cryptocurrency purchases, as well as the potential for fraud.

As is always the case with the MSM's consistently negative, biased and dishonest reporting on gold, no mention was made in the article of the Deep State financial elite's criminal gold price manipulation fraud that has been perpetrated non-stop for nearly forty years and that has resulted in a massive, $ 1,000,000,000,000.00 + theft from its victims.

And now investors know why: «blatant fraud at the very top level of Akorn's executive team, stunning evidence of blatant and pervasive data integrity violations,» according to a Reuters report on the court filing.

We don't know the entirety of what Cohen is being investigated for, but know it includes suspected bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations, according to reports in the Washington Post.

The Monetary Authority of Macau has issued a warning to the public regarding the possibility «fraud and criminal activities» in cryptocurrencies, the South China Morning Post reports April 20.

The report said the effort comes as part of the Chinese government's efforts to prevent potential money laundering, pyramid schemes and investment fraud from platforms accessible to Chinese investors.

To quote from the company's 2017 10 - K filing «We represent underperforming companies that are debtors - in - possession and lenders... we provide independent litigation consulting, including bankruptcy and avoidance litigation... [and] advise our clients in response to allegations involving the propriety of accounting and financial reporting, fraud, regulatory scrutiny and anti-corruption.»

Advertisers need to audit their ad click activity on a regular basis, consider the use of 3rd party auditing tools and services to mitigate click fraud and click quality issues, and present their reports and findings to the engines during regular account review meetings.

As the fallout from the huge Equifax data breach continues, consumers can choose among two safeguards to thwart fraudsters from opening unauthorized accounts in their name: a simple, and free, fraud alert; or the more drastic — and more costly and inconvenient — step of freezing a credit report.

Who should get one: Given the breadth of the breach and the value of the stolen data, everyone should, at the very least, place a fraud alert on their reports as a precaution.

There seems to have been very little auditing of click fraud techniques at the search engines, Alexander Tuzhilin's report is the exception.

ClearCoin's solutions increase efficiencies and reduce the reported $ 16 billion of annual ad fraud.

Click fraud still exists, but the increase in transparency (raw search queries, IP address reports) and decrease in questionable partners (better monitoring of content networks) makes this less and less of a problem.