of stock in WorldCom and felt like they had to loan Ebbers the money or risk losing their own personal worth. Of course what was later determined was that Ebbers had built the incredible growth of WorldCom on a fraud, like he did with his own personal wealth. When confronted with the fraud Ebbers resigned, although some say he was
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populated by the most affluent and wealthiest of individuals. If so, then why are wealthy individuals engaging in white collar crime? Throughout this essay, I will explore why wealthy individuals engage in white collar crimes, through a critical examination of the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank. Furthermore, suggest that the notion of American Democracy is being redefined to favor the rich. Essentially leaving the poor helpless.
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Bernard (Bernie) Madoff will be infamously remembered as the mastermind of the largest white collar crime in history. Investigators believe he perpetuated a 30 year, $65 billion fraud by leveraging his credibility as a Wall Street insider to deceive investors, financial institutions, accountants, friends, family, and government agencies (Ferrell, 2009). Therefore, victims, investigators, industry insiders, and observers have been left to ponder, how could Madoff dupe and deceive so many people for
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Whistleblowers and Health Care Fraud There are several obstacles to detecting fraud in health care. For example, a patient will have treatment described in a medical chart but will have diagnostic billing codes in a separate billing statement. While a payer could request the chart for comparison with the billing statement, the simple volume of work makes this routinely infeasible. Since these two pieces of information are together in the medical facility that provided treatment, individuals
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Newspapers have published quite a number of reports on gross irregularities in loan sanctioning and disbursement by the state- owned financial institutions. But one particular loan case, now being dubbed as Hallmark Scam because of its huge size and indifference, deliberate or otherwise, on the part of the management of the country’s largest public sector bank, has come as a real shocker. As the details of the scam are coming out gradually, the people concerned are suspecting that something
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Occupational Fraud and Abuse the perpetrator committed fraud by an asset misappropriation scheme in which the perpetrator steals or misuses an organization’s resources. Asset misappropriation is broken down into some sub-schemes like skimming, cash larceny, billing, expense reimbursement, check tampering. She was a well-trusted employee and even had previously caught other employees involved in embezzlement and frauds. So there was no reason to expect her of committing a fraud, costing the
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Enron had cost investors and company billions of dollars. Due to lack of organization structure and fraud prevention system companies would likely to be more exposed to employees to commit fraud. Policy like Whistblowing had changed organizations. The article “Whistleblowing and Good Government” is describe how one company should implementing and researching the best method of preventing fraud within company internally and externally. This article also defines the term Whistleblowing, and how
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crime Cloud computing risks 2009 Wireless vulnerabilities 2007 M-commerce attacks 2006 Phishing 2002 Cyberstalking 1998 Cyberterrorism attacks 1997 Spam 1995 Identity crime 1995 Online piracy 1995 Botnets 1993 Child exploitation1990 ATM fraud 1985 Funds transfer fraud 1985 Extortion 1980 Denial of service 1980 Creeper virus 1971 Computer hacking 1970 Telemarketing scams 1965 Phreaking 1961 Organised
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COPIED FROM CERTAIN REFERENCES. The elements of estafa with abuse of confidence under this provision are as follows: 1. That money, goods, or other personal property be received by the offender in trust, or on commission, or for administration, or under any other obligation involving the duty to make delivery of, or to return, the same; 2. That there be misappropriation or conversion of such money or property by the offender; or denial on his part of such receipt; 3. That such misappropriation
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Types of Fraud This paper will discuss fraud as well as differentiate between the different types of fraud. It will explore the reasons why people commit fraud, the types of people that are committing fraud, and the motives for people to commit fraud. Second, this paper will also discuss the fraud triangle along with the importance. Third, it will discuss some of the controls that prevent and detect fraudulent behavior. Finally, an exploration of whether rationalization contributes to fraud.
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