I was just actually a victim of a scam in a sense. I mentioned this to you when you met with Jason the other day. Well here is what happened. The man, “Michael Studabaker” emailed me again and said he had arranged for a painter to paint the apartment I had inquired about cleaning for a side job. He said his secretary was meant to send an upfront check to me for my expected cleaning services, as well as a check to the painter for his arranged services, but she “accidentally” sent all the money to
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Case 5-1 David L. Miller: Portrait of a White-Collar Criminal 1. How does Miller fit the profile of the average fraud perpetrator? David Miller looks just like a normal employee and that is the main reason he would fit right into the profile of that of the average fraud perpetrator. Those who are usually while collar workers do look like most in the world of business, and thus making them even more of a perpetrator in some cases. These type of workers do work long hours and most of the time
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Bernard L. Madoff Scandal From what we know about Bernard Madoff is he started a business called Bernard L. Madoff Investment Security LLC in the 1960 where he was the chairman of this company for over a decade, building his reputations to the world making his way into large businesses and gaining a number of wealthy clients on the way. When he was still a small company making his way into society he started his scam off with luring in the small clients, and since he was Jewish he decided a good
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A Ponzi scheme “lures investors in by guaranteeing unusually high returns... to avoid having too many investors reclaim their ‘profits,’ Ponzi schemes encourage them to stay in the game and earn even more money” (Yang, 2014). One of the largest Ponzi schemes that has ever happened was pulled off by the prestigious and well respected Bernie Madoff. Madoff had been chairman of NASDAQ at one point and at the time was the founder of Bernard L. Madoff Securities LLC, where he had a position of status
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Catfishing and online dating fraud is an expanding issue that has recently been gaining increasing notice from the public due to productions like the MTV show Catfish and the general increase of occurrences. Because of this, one would think that the attempts at intervention to try and stop this type of scam would increase also, but in reality no real progress has been made. The key to reversing the issue of online dating scams is identity verification. Both government legislation and social media
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MAT114 (STATISTICS) Project 2 Report Alejandra Ferrer April 15, 2014 Introduction: During an election year, there will be many polls to investigate how the 2 parties will do. The purpose of this current research was to examine how the different genders (Male and Female) and the different political parties (Democrats and Republicans) feel about how our President and Congress are handling our economy and our foreign policy. This might provide insight as to how the election may go in November
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1. Do you think it is ethical for social networks to sell access user information to business for market research and other users? Why or why not ? 1.Spamming - Social Networking Sites can sell one's personal information to anyone who wants to buy it, including spammers and on line predators. Even if the terms of understanding claim that no personal information will be sold, the site can change its policy at any time. social networking sites like Myspace and Bebo are full of spam and scams! Many
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American Institutional Legitimacy: The Stock Market and Beyond The Stock Market is something our culture sees as a jack pot but when they lose people see it as the worst thing ever invented. Jonathan is one of the people who sees it as a jackpot and is able to see that it can be more than just that. What Jonathan was trying to legitimate was the pump and dump system. It is where someone buys something for a ridiculously low amount and then sells it at a very high price. For example how amusement
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Abstract Senior citizens are such popular targets for white-collar scam artists. Some factors are the growing number of seniors in the population and seniors concerns to increase their income from investments and improve their health. The scams profiled include home-improvement projects, where a person takes the victim's money but does not perform the work promised; investment frauds and controlling their money for the future; and health and medical scams, which promise the equipment and service
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Victom of an Organized Cybercrimes Scenario: You are a victim of an online scam in which the attacker installed a trojan that locked my computer, and offered me a virus removal program to fix my computer for $50. You accepted, and the attacker charged your account $6000 for 6 Surf boards. What laws were violated? What actions did you commit that you should not have committed? How can you remedy and prevent this from occurring again?1 The attacker can be charged with the following Violations:
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