CASE 4: ACCOUNTING FRAUD AT WORLDCOM Betty Vinson: victim or villain? Should criminal fraud charges have been brought to her? How should employees react when ordered by their employer to do something they do not believe in or feel uncomfortable doing? In discussing whether Vinson should been charged with criminal fraud, it can be analyzed from ethical perspective which can truly judge whether she was morally responsible for the wrong or not. In order to determine whether Vinson was morally responsible
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International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT) ISSN: 2278-0181 Vol. 3 Issue 8, August - 2014 The Impact of Mobile Information and Communication Technology on Cybercrime in Nigeria Oyenike Mary Olanrewaju1, Faith Oluwatosin Adebiyi2 1,2 Department of Mathematical Sciences and Information Technology Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State, Nigeria Keywords: Cybercrime, Intelligent, Investigatory Security, Mobile I. INTRODUCTION Information and Communications
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Lamiya Marsh Cyber Crimes DeVry University Professor Kent Cyber Crimes This week we are learning about internet crimes or cybercrimes which are crimes conducted on the internet or computer network, because we live in such a technological advanced world the threat of cybercrimes has grown. Internet laws have been put in place and established to ensure internet protection. Now you may think cybercrimes are not as severe as most but indeed they are; some cybercrimes are harmless but others
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COMPUTER CRIMES A Case Study submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the completion of the course in CIS401M: IT ETHICS AND LEADERSHIP Term 3, Academic Year 2014-2015 by LORETO V. SIBAYAN PAUL MATTHEW G. AVILA Master of Science in Information Technology College of Computer Studies April 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT 5 CHAPTER 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION 6 CHAPTER 2 2.0 OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE 8 2.1 CYBERCRIME 9 2.2 THEORIES
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filed with the Internet Crime Complaint Center has increased from 16,838 in 2000 to 303,809 in 2010. Of those complaints reported the top 5 include: Non-delivery payment/merchandise FBI-related scams Identity theft Computer crimes Miscellaneous fraud Guidelines to Protect Yourself The US government provides the following suggestions to help protect you online. Beef up your security. Invest in personal firewalls and security software packages. Make sure you have the latest security patches, and
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Introduction Cybercrimes are steady trending and hitting the main stream as an epidemic for conventional criminal offenses. Within cyber crimes deception, embezzlement, blackmail, identity theft, and identity fraud are some well known crimes. According to Controlling cyber-crime and gambling: Problems and paradoxes in the mediation of law and criminal organization: The main elements explaining computer crime and its organization may be found within the illegal activity and the socio-legal problems
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and Curtis Nicholls was printed in the CPA journal in April of this year. To give a brief history of SOX after the corporate fraud in the early 2000’s the SEC felt pressure to respond. Their response to the fraud committed my giant corporations such as Enron and WorldCom was the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The main point of SOX was to try to limit or ideally eliminate corporate fraud by cracking down on self-regulating audit. The answer as to whether SOX is working or not is not as simple as yes or no.
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Sarbanes–Oxley, Sarbox or SOX, is a United States federal law which was introduced in 2002. It is also known as the “Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act” and “and 'Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act”. The main objective of the act is to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures. New aspects are created by SOX act for corporate accountability as well as new penalties for wrong doings. It was basically introduced
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Habibi 1 Ramtin Habibi Mr. Jeffs ENG 3U1 July 15, 2014 " Essay Test " Throughout human history, mankind has endured many periods of suffering and hardship. Although it was completely immoral, those hard times are what made our world the place it is today. It is in our human nature to experience hardship at one point in our lives as it can help us mature and better ourselves. However, when the hardship comes from several different sources, it becomes hard to learn form the many experiences
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There is an old saying: Crime doesn’t pay. However, for David Miller crime paid for two Mercedes-Benz sedans; a lavish suburban home; a condominium at Myrtle Beach; expensive suits; tailored and monogrammed shirts; diamond, sapphire, ruby, and emerald rings for his wife; and a new car for his father-in-law. Though Miller confessed to embezzling funds from six different employers over a 20-year period, he has never been prosecuted or incarcerated—in large part because his employers never turned him
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