But it’s a scam. It’s not true. Instead, you’re likely to end up paying their fee, plus extra balance transfer and other fees they didn’t tell you about. If you…
She cast the fraud as a nationwide problem. New federal unemployment programs with differing eligibility criteria exacerbated the problem and made them a particular target. DOES has seen a spike…
Another one playing on the fear of recent world events is the bomb threat scam. There are two main types of this sports scam -- both exploiting scarcity of tickets,…
In this paper, we address this question by studying how consumers respond to potentially fraudulent reviews and how review portals can leverage this knowledge to design better fraud management policies.…
This makes this form of fraud very credible and often difficult to spot. The IRS encourages all filers to use the simplest form that they can to speed up processing…
This leads us to think even more seriously and wisely about fraud preventive activities as this has become essentially important if harmony and evenness of society is required. The same…
The 1992 scam was a systematic fraud committed by Mehta in the Indian stock market which led to the complete collapse of security systems. 1. In the Scam Shield app,…
The seller becomes trapped in the scam by depositing the cashier's check into his or her own bank account and wiring the excess amount to the buyer. Finally, and most…
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM McFARLAND was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 6 years in prison…
New York. Accounting fraud has also been used to conceal other theft taking place within a company. When you place a fraud alert on your credit report at one of…