Sentences with phrase «use of every accounting fraud»

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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.

In one recent cases a Baltimore man is facing federal charges of identity theft and bank fraud after he used personal information of at least three nursing home residents to open multiple credit card accounts without their permission.

Furthermore, if Retrophin used some form of blockchain accounting, they could have caught Shkreli's alleged fraud earlier, or prevented it from ever happening.

The woman on the phone expressed no interest at all that one of their accounts was being used to receive funds from check fraud.

Mastercard explained in the 2016 announcement that «accordingly, the use of traditional payment networks and payment systems technologies in combination with blockchain currencies may provide consumers and merchants the benefits of the decentralized blockchain while still maintaining a security of account information and provide a strong defense against fraud and theft.»

Crooks who use accounting fraud — such as the fraud that led to the firing of Maurice Greenberg at A.I.G. and his counterparts at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other companies engaging in Enron - type accounting.

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.

Using as evidence its obvious parallels to their 19th century accounts tying the American Indian to Israel's lost tribes, its descriptions of situations, incidents and characters suspiciously like those within Joseph Smith's ken, its echoes of Masonic lore, its Isaiah passages and its bountiful supply of anachronisms, they conclude that the work is not only worthless but a fraud.

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If you commit fraud or falsify information in connection with your use of the Services or in connection with your Founding Moms account, your account will be terminated immediately and we reserve the right to hold you liable for any and all damages that we suffer, to pursue legal action through relevant local and national law enforcement authorities and to notify your Internet Service Provider of any fraudulent activity we associate with you or your use of the Services.

Consumers also should use a hand to cover a keypad when entering a PIN and be careful of criminals «shoulder surfing»; regularly monitor their accounts, financial statements, and credit reports to be alerted to skimmer fraud or any type of identity theft; and, provide financial institutions with up - to - date contact information, including a mobile telephone number.

A romance scam occurs when a stranger pretends romantic intentions, gains the affection of victims, and then uses that goodwill to gain access to their victims» money, bank accounts, credit cards, passports, email accounts, and / or national identification numbers or by getting the victims to commit financial fraud on their behalf.

But the thing that is unique to social networks and online dating services is that some of the abuses taking place there are not finance related, they are behavior related, posting of inappropriate content for example, stalking kids or using a platform to spam other accounts, using a platform to perpetrate other types of fraud against members, the so called Nigerian scam for example.

Federal prosecutors have charged that a $ 140 million project to bridge the «digital divide» in Arizona's public schools was used as a vehicle for accounting fraud in late 2001 by officials of the telecommunications giant Qwest Communications International Inc..

To me it can make perfect sense to do something today — say close a little used credit card account — that might drop my credit score a few points if I see more than offsetting (in my view of my personal situation) benefits — reducing my vulnerability to fraud, simplifying my life, and eliminating a tool that can tempt me to spend more than I can afford, in this example.

The criminal act used to describe theft of credit card or bank account information for the ultimate use of committing fraud.

Instead of (or in addition to) trying to reduce the chance of fraud, you can reduce the impact of fraud, even if it occurs, by not paying for things using the details of an account where you have all your money.

The filing of a fraud alert entitles victims to a free credit report from each credit reporting company, which can be used to determine whether fraudulent accounts have been set up in your name.

Exposing for the first time a kind of reverse insurance fraud where insurance providers are routinely bilking your credit scores using questionable accounting practices.

Other benefits of the Wells Fargo secured card is monthly reporting to credit bureaus, automatic fraud monitoring, zero liability for promptly reported unauthorized use, free online account access with 24 - hour customer service, credit card transaction alerts on your mobile device, and automatic car rental insurance.

Here's the real catcher, despite having the account for 5 years, paying off in full every month and not being late, etc, being told not to use the card until the fraud charges were cleared, instead of just reopening the account, we had to essentially reapply for the credit card and the credit limit.

Take advantage of NCB's CardValet ®, a mobile card management application that helps reduce account fraud by allowing cardholders to monitor accounts with their smartphone and control how, when and where their debit card is used.

«Unauthorized activity» covers only certain kinds of fraud, however, such as account hacking — similar to a criminal stealing your credit card and using it to initiate fraudulent purchases.

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To help protect your account information, Chase is using some of the latest fraud protection technologies.

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A friend of mine's brother bought a game for his birthday using friend's PayPal account, and Steam locked down the brother's account for potential fraud.

The EPA fraud is the improper accounting of all the fossil fuels used to produce the electricity to power an all electric car.

Lawyer Checker's Account & Entity Screen (AES) search, which can be ordered from Searches UK, allows solicitors and conveyancers to check the previous use of client accounts to which they are sending funds to better assess the risk associated with the transaction — enabling firms to combat the risk of vendor fraud.

Identity theft is basically a new classification of white - collar financial fraud crimes that normally involve accessing another person's bank account, or using other financial information, without permission.

During his time working in the forensic accounting area, Chris has worked on a large number of forensic investigations, fraud, corruption (including the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and anti-money laundering risk consulting assignments, expert witness and general litigation support engagements, involving the preparation of reports for use in various disputes in both commercial and criminal cases.

For example, if you possess a bank account number, credit card number, or PIN, and you «conspire, confederate, or combine with another» person who actually commits fraud or theft using that number, then you can be convicted of the same crime.

One place where fraud could see an uptick is people going straight to the source and, instead of using stolen credit card information, using stolen personal information (similar to the kind taken in the T - Mobile breach) to take over accounts or open new accounts.

Joanna told me that for people like Mark to protect themselves from any type of fraud, they need to have strong passwords that are unique for every online account, even if they use a lazy system for creating them.

Account services can be used as bitcoin wallets, though users should keep in mind many of these institutions do not insure consumers from the loss of deposits via theft, fraud, or bankruptcy.

When Facebook leadership learned what the data had actually been used for, Paul Grewal, a vice president and deputy general counsel for the social - media giant, responded by saying, «This was a scam — and a fraud,» adding that the company was taking action: Facebook has suspended the accounts of Cambridge Analytica, Wylie, and the researcher, Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian - American academic.

There are many faces of fraud in the insurance market - using stolen identities to obtain a new policy - or just as troubling, an account takeover to make a false claim or change payee information to receive claim funds.