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Police in Bangalore, India, arrest Nadeem Kashmiri, employee of back-office unit of HSBC, British bank, on charges of stealing customers' confidential debit card data and helping defraud them of about $425,000 (S)	1
A court battle between M&T and Deutsche Bank demonstrates the arguments over who should pay for the collapse of collateralized debt obligations.	0
Researchers are looking at new ways to stop online fraudsters and their automated programs from entering sites.	0
Credit experts offered advice for the 40 million Target shoppers whose credit data may have been compromised by cybercriminals, and those in similar straits.	1
Trevor Scotland, 39, who served as the chief operating officer of NYC-TV, pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.	1
The merger process of Indian Bank and Allahabad Bank could face a slight delay in the wake of the 21-day nationwide lockdown, an official of the Kolkata-based lender said on Saturday.	0
Recent flood of fake Citibank e-mail messages shows growing arsenal of technical and psychological tricks online tricksters, called phishers, are using to get people to divulge personal data; messages and fake Web sites they direct recipients to a...	1
Congress is expected to quiz regulators on Wednesday about their failure to keep an eye on the JPMorgan unit responsible for a trading loss of more than $2 billion.	0
For more than eight years the bank ignored signs that employees were opening unauthorized accounts to meet aggressive sales goals, a federal regulator said in a lawsuit.	0
A cybercrook represented himself as an executive of a UPI application and duped a senior citizen (77) of Rs3.29 lakh under the pretext of updating his KYC on January 4.	1
Raffaello Follieri, an Italian businessman, pleaded guilty to 14 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy in Federal District Court.	1
Bernard L. Madoff, convicted last month of orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme, was moved from his Manhattan jail cell to a prison in Atlanta, the Bureau of Prisons said in the early hours Tuesday.	0
New York State Banking Department charges that mortgage lending company Anvil Mortgage Banking Ltd routinely engaged in deceptive acts and practices; says it is considering whether to revoke company's license (S)	0
New York State Atty Gen Eliot L Spitzer files civil lawsuit against marketing companies OptInRealBig, Synergy6 and Delta Seven, accusing them of sending fraudulent e-mail messages, and says the will seek penalties so large that they will drive eac...	1
In yet another instance of fraudsters using compromised personal data of their targets, a senior citizen from Selimpur area near Jodhpur Park allegedly lost more than Rs 48,000 through fraudulent transactions.	1
Merrill Lynch has denied insider trading allegations leveled at the bank and its Australian subsidiary by David Waterhouse, who is involved in another lawsuit with the bank.	0
A grand jury in Texas issued a second indictment on Monday against Representative Tom DeLay, accusing the Texas Republican and two aides of money laundering in a $190,000 transaction that prosecutors have described as a violation of the state's ba...	0
New legislation aimed at supporting the semiconductor industry is a sign of shifting consensus in Washington, where industrial plans are now in vogue	0
Prosecutors say their own informant stole millions of credit card numbers in a case that reveals how the Internet is enabling new crimes on a vast scale.	1
Three California men were charged with running a $200 million Ponzi scheme involving thousands of investors, the state attorney general, Jerry Brown, said. The men used investors’ money to finance their estates, jets and cars before their Ponzi sc...	0
The lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, said the punishment was overly harsh and offered to personally repay the grocery store.	0
A senior citizen is struggling to recover Rs 25 lakh debited fraudulently from his bank account using a duplicate SIM card. The amount was transferred into four accounts across the country. While the police are investigating the money trail, the multi-state nature of the crime is making recovery difficult.	1
The country was hit the hardest in the first wave of a global hacking effort, with banks, cellphone operators and railroads fending off attacks.	1
Louis Freeh, who is charged with the job of returning assets to MF Global’s creditors, is expected to testify alongside regulators, as well as another trustee tasked with returning money to customers.	0
Senators John D. Rockefeller IV, and Richard Blumenthal said Target’s failure to heed warning signs of incursions by cybercriminals was the fault of its top executives and board.	0
Online bank customers who give up their user names and passwords to phishers are protected by zero liability, an industry standard that offers full restitution.	1
The Better Business Bureau warns that scammers are posing as legitimate car dealers on the Internet.	1
Cyberdome has warned against a new Nigerian fraud where scamsters hack into the email address of ministers and top government officials and request fund for charity activities.	1
Whether prosecutors can succeed in forcing Steven A. Cohen to give up billions of dollars of assets will depend on showing that insider trading so infected SAC Capital Advisors that much of its money should be forfeited as the tainted proceeds of ...	0
A “plea proceeding” was cited in court filings as part of a proposal by federal prosecutors for allowing Bernard L. Madoff’s victims to be heard in court.	0
The investigation of Hamlet Peralta led the police to a wider anticorruption inquiry, and ultimately an indictment, of top police officials.	0
The F.B.I.’s involvement adds to the scrutiny surrounding the auspiciously timed options trades, by an investor or investors who have not yet been identified.	0
Boris A Berezovsky, top Russian executive and onetime insider, who has denounced Russian government crackdown on rich businessmen, receives measure of vindication when international auditors exonerate one of his companies in long-running investiga...	0
The American Civil Liberties Union and the A.C.L.U. of Louisiana filed a lawsuit in federal court against the governor and the state treasurer regarding payments the state made to two churches.	0
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire agreed to pay victims of phone and e-mail hacking, and the victims’ lawyers said they saw evidence of a cover-up by senior managers.	1
Credit card issuers have stopped many of the “deceptive” or “unfair” practices outlawed by the Credit Card Act, but they are still engaging in others, according to a report.	0
Security experts say travelers often ignore the added threats to their information — passwords, credit card numbers, business secrets — in a public place.	1
A resident of Kadaba police station limits in Dakshina Kananda district allegedly fell prey to an OTP fraud and lost around Rs 1 lakh.	1
Haaretz, Israeli newspaper, reports that Omri Sharon, Parliament member and son of Prime Min Ariel Sharon, is going to be indicted by Attorney Gen Menachem Mazuz on variety of charges alleging financial misconduct and perjury (S)	0
Counterfeiting of Apple products seems to be on the rise.	0
Lehman Brothers Holdings and a group of unsecured creditors sued JPMorgan Chase on Wednesday for more than $5 billion, accusing it of siphoning billions of dollars of assets and hastening Lehman’s bankruptcy.	0
A former accountant pleaded guilty to one felony count of lying to federal investigators as part of a widening criminal inquiry into questionable tax shelters.	0
The national court ordered the extradition to the United States of Jesús Ángel Bergantiños Díaz, accused in a major art market scandal that involved the sale of nearly $70 million in forged paintings through a New York gallery.	0
The Fire Department said yesterday that it had filed disciplinary charges against 13 fire officers after the City Department of Investigation reported that they had submitted invalid degrees or education credits to qualify for promotion. The Fire ...	0
Target confirmed on Thursday morning that it was investigating a security breach involving credit card and debit card information for 40 million of its retail customers.	1
The arts and crafts retailer based in Texas said that it was looking into a potential cyberattack involving its customers’ credit card information.	1
Federal judge in San Francisco sentences Pavlo Lazarenko, former prime minister of Ukraine accused of stealing $114 million while in office from 1996 to 1997, to nine years in American prison for money laundering, wire fraud and transporting stole...	1
Anthony D. Marshall was convicted of stealing from the matriarch as she suffered from Alzheimer’s disease at the end of her life. He could face from 1 to 25 years behind bars.	0
Yakub Yusupov and his sons Eduard and Pinchas are arrested and charged with operating counterfeit money ring in New York that passed estimated 9.5 million in phony bills over past six years (S)	0
A trove of leaked documents showed how Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s ex-president, exploited the country’s wealth to enrich herself.	1
Federal appeals court rules that Internal Revenue Service committed fraud by brokering secret deals with two airline pilots to let them escape taxes in return for testifying against 1,300 other pilots who bought into same tax shelters; finds one p...	0
Editorial scores lawsuits by conservative group Washington Legal Foundation challenging state programs that use interest produced by short-term deposits that lawyers hold in trust for clients to finance legal services for poor; says case now befor...	0
Federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. are investigating a Russian firm once controlled by Gennady N. Timchenko, an ally of President Vladimir V. Putin.	0
Scammers and extortionists are combing through stolen data on 30 million to 40 million Ashley Madison users in search of targets.	1
Scott M. Stringer has made the accusation against Eliot Spitzer, his rival in the Democratic primary for city comptroller, but legal experts say he didn’t misuse funds to pay for prostitutes.	0
A report on state-run television accused a major bank of helping clients transfer large amounts of renminbi overseas.	0
The Federal Reserve has adopted rules to give home buyers more protection from the types of lending practices that have contributed to the housing crisis.	0
A new online service offers free help to keep homeowners safe from a form of fraud known as “house theft.”	1
Almost any personal information is for sale online through the so-called “Bug Market,” including credit card numbers, e-mail addresses and access to computer systems.	1
Bernard L. Madoff has attracted his fair share of enemies ever since he was arrested in December and accused of running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Now, it seems he has one more enemy, this time from federal prison: Inmate No. 40948018. Jonathan L...	0
Article on rehabilitation of ChoicePoint, giant data broker that maintains digital dossiers on nearly every adult in US and was hit by Federal Trade Commission with $15 million in fines and penalties for violating consumer security and record-hand...	0
By The Associated Press.	0
A $2 billion plunge in profitability will increase pressure on the Japanese conglomerate to get its financial house in order.	0
Hackers associated with the group Anonymous claimed to have stolen a small number of usernames and passwords from an Apple server.	1
The online company and two of its affiliates have agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a complaint from federal and state authorities in Connecticut.	1
Securities and Exchange Commission wins court order blocking $22.9 million severance payment to Vivendi Universal's former chief executive Jean-Marie Messier while agency investigates company; Federal Judge Kevin T Duffy bars Vivendi from transfer...	0
Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, all reporting quarterly earnings, said they had set aside billions of dollars in preparation for loan defaults.	0
The detective department’s crackdown seems to have had little effect on e-wallet frauds in the city, with 12 cases being reported from Kolkata, Bidhannagar, and Barrackpore police areas over the past 72 hours.	1
Increased use of electronic medical records surely means a rise in ID theft, and many don’t know yet that they are victims.	1
Raffaello Follieri plead guilty to 14 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy, after duping investors by claiming special connections with the Vatican.	1
Robert Riggio of Manhattan, who was charged with defrauding more than 60 priests over several years, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in Federal District Court yesterday, prosecutors said. Mr. Riggio, 60, faces up to 40 years in prison when he is sent...	1
Alan Ellis, who ran the now-defunct file-sharing Web site OiNK.cd from 2004 to 2007, was found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud.	1
Credit card companies have intensified their exploitation of consumers, and Congress should respond by moving up the date when its credit card law becomes effective.	0
Investigators are still trying to solve the $81 million cyberheist from the central bank of Bangladesh in February.	1
When software engineer Girjesh Rai (33) received a message on Facebook from his uncle saying that he was admitted in hospital after an accident, Rai was deeply concerned. In the same message, his 'uncle' had also asked for Rs 15,000 immediately for treatment.	1
Attackers are using built-in features of the Chrome and Firefox Web browsers to install malicious software that can see everything stored in the browser, including saved passwords for e-mail and social network accounts, according to Italian securi...	1
Michael Neu of Slidell, La., was charged with 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering, the police said.	1
A federal judge sentenced Bernard L. Madoff to 150 years in prison for running a huge Ponzi scheme that devastated thousands of investors, calling his crimes “extraordinarily evil.”	0
The change came after hackers stole the online dating service’s data and released personal information related to more than 30 million accounts.	1
Mr. Hynes, a former MasterCard executive, will take over about nine months after a malfunction that kept cardholders from using their money.	1
Three men were charged with stealing credit information from more than 30,000 people. In the process, prosecutors say, the men stole at least $2.7 million.	1
I suspect the rent I was charged when I moved into my rent-stabilized apartment had been raised beyond what the law allows. How do I research this matter?	0
The economic offences wing (EOW) on Saturday arrested Rajneet Singh, son of BJP leader Sardar Tara Singh, in connection with the PMC Bank fraud.	0
The breach at Equifax comes on the heels of numerous cyberattacks. “It feels like there’s nothing you can really do to protect yourself,” one woman said.	1
Two lawsuits in the Knoedler & Company gallery forgery case, one of the art market’s more stunning scandals, are set to go to trial in January, a federal judge said in a ruling.	0
In this lesson, students research different types of identity-theft fraud and ways to avoid falling victim to various scams. They then create focused public service announcements in different media, targeted to individuals most susceptible to cons...	1
Securities and Exchange Commission approves tightening of rules requiring mutual funds to be true to their names; specialized funds with names suggesting that they focus on particular types of investments, like 'high growth' or 'Pacific Rim' stock...	0
Prosecutors often need secrecy to track down those behind cyberattacks, Peter J. Henning writes in his White Collar Watch column. But the need for a company victimized by hacking to disclose information – both to the victims and to shareholders – ...	1
Editorial notes that as part of $54 million settlement largely engineered by NYS Common Retirement Fund, 10 former directors of WorldCom have agreed to fork over $18 million of their own money to settle class-action lawsuit brought by fund and oth...	0
Steps such as regularly checking credit card statements can help guard against cybercrime.	1
The traders are buying hundreds of billions of dollars of United States Treasury securities on the open market in a controversial attempt to keep interest rates low and revive the economy.	0
Gas prices fall. How PayPal is changing. Another retailer may have had a data breach.	1
Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is financing a new "investigative journalism" Web site that will focus on corporate chicanery and securities fraud.	1
Virginia enacts law imposing harsh felony penalties for sending unsolicited commercial e-mail to computer users through deceptive means; law would be enforced against those who use fraudulent practices to send bulk e-mail, commonly known as spam, ...	1
Brooklyn lawyer Sandra E Roper is charged with stealing $9,000 from her client, Mary Lee Ward, and then lying about it to state grievance committee; is also accused of forging retainer agreement; pleads not guilty; photo (S)	0
The University of Connecticut has notified about 72,000 people in its computer database that their date of birth, Social Security number, address and telephone number may have been illegally accessed during the last year and a half. The univer...	0
The case stems from the 2010 season, when there was no salary cap and, the players union claims, teams worked together to keep salaries artificially low.	0
Some information is revealed about the tactics used by Internet fraudsters to get their malware ads on well-trafficked Web sites.	1
Here’s a look at the different protections available for fraudulent signature and PIN debit card transactions.	1
Still struggling with 1,200 percent annual inflation, Zimbabwe’s reserve bank said it would lop three zeros off the nation’s paper currency starting today in an attempt to make sales and bookkeeping less onerous. The bank said that Zimbabweans cou...	0

Police in Bangalore, India, arrest Nadeem Kashmiri, employee of back-office unit of HSBC, British bank, on charges of stealing customers' confidential debit card data and helping defraud them of about $425,000 (S)

1

A court battle between M&T and Deutsche Bank demonstrates the arguments over who should pay for the collapse of collateralized debt obligations.

0

Researchers are looking at new ways to stop online fraudsters and their automated programs from entering sites.

0

Credit experts offered advice for the 40 million Target shoppers whose credit data may have been compromised by cybercriminals, and those in similar straits.

1

Trevor Scotland, 39, who served as the chief operating officer of NYC-TV, pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

1

The merger process of Indian Bank and Allahabad Bank could face a slight delay in the wake of the 21-day nationwide lockdown, an official of the Kolkata-based lender said on Saturday.

0

Recent flood of fake Citibank e-mail messages shows growing arsenal of technical and psychological tricks online tricksters, called phishers, are using to get people to divulge personal data; messages and fake Web sites they direct recipients to a...

1

Congress is expected to quiz regulators on Wednesday about their failure to keep an eye on the JPMorgan unit responsible for a trading loss of more than $2 billion.

0

For more than eight years the bank ignored signs that employees were opening unauthorized accounts to meet aggressive sales goals, a federal regulator said in a lawsuit.

0

A cybercrook represented himself as an executive of a UPI application and duped a senior citizen (77) of Rs3.29 lakh under the pretext of updating his KYC on January 4.

1

Raffaello Follieri, an Italian businessman, pleaded guilty to 14 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy in Federal District Court.

1

Bernard L. Madoff, convicted last month of orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme, was moved from his Manhattan jail cell to a prison in Atlanta, the Bureau of Prisons said in the early hours Tuesday.

0

New York State Banking Department charges that mortgage lending company Anvil Mortgage Banking Ltd routinely engaged in deceptive acts and practices; says it is considering whether to revoke company's license (S)

0

New York State Atty Gen Eliot L Spitzer files civil lawsuit against marketing companies OptInRealBig, Synergy6 and Delta Seven, accusing them of sending fraudulent e-mail messages, and says the will seek penalties so large that they will drive eac...

1

In yet another instance of fraudsters using compromised personal data of their targets, a senior citizen from Selimpur area near Jodhpur Park allegedly lost more than Rs 48,000 through fraudulent transactions.

1

Merrill Lynch has denied insider trading allegations leveled at the bank and its Australian subsidiary by David Waterhouse, who is involved in another lawsuit with the bank.

0

A grand jury in Texas issued a second indictment on Monday against Representative Tom DeLay, accusing the Texas Republican and two aides of money laundering in a $190,000 transaction that prosecutors have described as a violation of the state's ba...

0

New legislation aimed at supporting the semiconductor industry is a sign of shifting consensus in Washington, where industrial plans are now in vogue

0

Prosecutors say their own informant stole millions of credit card numbers in a case that reveals how the Internet is enabling new crimes on a vast scale.

1

Three California men were charged with running a $200 million Ponzi scheme involving thousands of investors, the state attorney general, Jerry Brown, said. The men used investors’ money to finance their estates, jets and cars before their Ponzi sc...

0

The lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, said the punishment was overly harsh and offered to personally repay the grocery store.

0

A senior citizen is struggling to recover Rs 25 lakh debited fraudulently from his bank account using a duplicate SIM card. The amount was transferred into four accounts across the country. While the police are investigating the money trail, the multi-state nature of the crime is making recovery difficult.

1

The country was hit the hardest in the first wave of a global hacking effort, with banks, cellphone operators and railroads fending off attacks.

1

Louis Freeh, who is charged with the job of returning assets to MF Global’s creditors, is expected to testify alongside regulators, as well as another trustee tasked with returning money to customers.

0

Senators John D. Rockefeller IV, and Richard Blumenthal said Target’s failure to heed warning signs of incursions by cybercriminals was the fault of its top executives and board.

0

Online bank customers who give up their user names and passwords to phishers are protected by zero liability, an industry standard that offers full restitution.

1

The Better Business Bureau warns that scammers are posing as legitimate car dealers on the Internet.

1

Cyberdome has warned against a new Nigerian fraud where scamsters hack into the email address of ministers and top government officials and request fund for charity activities.

1

Whether prosecutors can succeed in forcing Steven A. Cohen to give up billions of dollars of assets will depend on showing that insider trading so infected SAC Capital Advisors that much of its money should be forfeited as the tainted proceeds of ...

0

A “plea proceeding” was cited in court filings as part of a proposal by federal prosecutors for allowing Bernard L. Madoff’s victims to be heard in court.

0

The investigation of Hamlet Peralta led the police to a wider anticorruption inquiry, and ultimately an indictment, of top police officials.

0

The F.B.I.’s involvement adds to the scrutiny surrounding the auspiciously timed options trades, by an investor or investors who have not yet been identified.

0

Boris A Berezovsky, top Russian executive and onetime insider, who has denounced Russian government crackdown on rich businessmen, receives measure of vindication when international auditors exonerate one of his companies in long-running investiga...

0

The American Civil Liberties Union and the A.C.L.U. of Louisiana filed a lawsuit in federal court against the governor and the state treasurer regarding payments the state made to two churches.

0

Rupert Murdoch’s media empire agreed to pay victims of phone and e-mail hacking, and the victims’ lawyers said they saw evidence of a cover-up by senior managers.

1

Credit card issuers have stopped many of the “deceptive” or “unfair” practices outlawed by the Credit Card Act, but they are still engaging in others, according to a report.

0

Security experts say travelers often ignore the added threats to their information — passwords, credit card numbers, business secrets — in a public place.

1

A resident of Kadaba police station limits in Dakshina Kananda district allegedly fell prey to an OTP fraud and lost around Rs 1 lakh.

1

Haaretz, Israeli newspaper, reports that Omri Sharon, Parliament member and son of Prime Min Ariel Sharon, is going to be indicted by Attorney Gen Menachem Mazuz on variety of charges alleging financial misconduct and perjury (S)

0

Counterfeiting of Apple products seems to be on the rise.

0

Lehman Brothers Holdings and a group of unsecured creditors sued JPMorgan Chase on Wednesday for more than $5 billion, accusing it of siphoning billions of dollars of assets and hastening Lehman’s bankruptcy.

0

A former accountant pleaded guilty to one felony count of lying to federal investigators as part of a widening criminal inquiry into questionable tax shelters.

0

The national court ordered the extradition to the United States of Jesús Ángel Bergantiños Díaz, accused in a major art market scandal that involved the sale of nearly $70 million in forged paintings through a New York gallery.

0

The Fire Department said yesterday that it had filed disciplinary charges against 13 fire officers after the City Department of Investigation reported that they had submitted invalid degrees or education credits to qualify for promotion. The Fire ...

0

Target confirmed on Thursday morning that it was investigating a security breach involving credit card and debit card information for 40 million of its retail customers.

1

The arts and crafts retailer based in Texas said that it was looking into a potential cyberattack involving its customers’ credit card information.

1

Federal judge in San Francisco sentences Pavlo Lazarenko, former prime minister of Ukraine accused of stealing $114 million while in office from 1996 to 1997, to nine years in American prison for money laundering, wire fraud and transporting stole...

1

Anthony D. Marshall was convicted of stealing from the matriarch as she suffered from Alzheimer’s disease at the end of her life. He could face from 1 to 25 years behind bars.

0

Yakub Yusupov and his sons Eduard and Pinchas are arrested and charged with operating counterfeit money ring in New York that passed estimated 9.5 million in phony bills over past six years (S)

0

A trove of leaked documents showed how Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s ex-president, exploited the country’s wealth to enrich herself.

1

Federal appeals court rules that Internal Revenue Service committed fraud by brokering secret deals with two airline pilots to let them escape taxes in return for testifying against 1,300 other pilots who bought into same tax shelters; finds one p...

0

Editorial scores lawsuits by conservative group Washington Legal Foundation challenging state programs that use interest produced by short-term deposits that lawyers hold in trust for clients to finance legal services for poor; says case now befor...

0

Federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. are investigating a Russian firm once controlled by Gennady N. Timchenko, an ally of President Vladimir V. Putin.

0

Scammers and extortionists are combing through stolen data on 30 million to 40 million Ashley Madison users in search of targets.

1

Scott M. Stringer has made the accusation against Eliot Spitzer, his rival in the Democratic primary for city comptroller, but legal experts say he didn’t misuse funds to pay for prostitutes.

0

A report on state-run television accused a major bank of helping clients transfer large amounts of renminbi overseas.

0

The Federal Reserve has adopted rules to give home buyers more protection from the types of lending practices that have contributed to the housing crisis.

0

A new online service offers free help to keep homeowners safe from a form of fraud known as “house theft.”

1

Almost any personal information is for sale online through the so-called “Bug Market,” including credit card numbers, e-mail addresses and access to computer systems.

1

Bernard L. Madoff has attracted his fair share of enemies ever since he was arrested in December and accused of running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Now, it seems he has one more enemy, this time from federal prison: Inmate No. 40948018. Jonathan L...

0

Article on rehabilitation of ChoicePoint, giant data broker that maintains digital dossiers on nearly every adult in US and was hit by Federal Trade Commission with $15 million in fines and penalties for violating consumer security and record-hand...

0

By The Associated Press.

0

A $2 billion plunge in profitability will increase pressure on the Japanese conglomerate to get its financial house in order.

0

Hackers associated with the group Anonymous claimed to have stolen a small number of usernames and passwords from an Apple server.

1

The online company and two of its affiliates have agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a complaint from federal and state authorities in Connecticut.

1

Securities and Exchange Commission wins court order blocking $22.9 million severance payment to Vivendi Universal's former chief executive Jean-Marie Messier while agency investigates company; Federal Judge Kevin T Duffy bars Vivendi from transfer...

0

Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, all reporting quarterly earnings, said they had set aside billions of dollars in preparation for loan defaults.

0

The detective department’s crackdown seems to have had little effect on e-wallet frauds in the city, with 12 cases being reported from Kolkata, Bidhannagar, and Barrackpore police areas over the past 72 hours.

1

Increased use of electronic medical records surely means a rise in ID theft, and many don’t know yet that they are victims.

1

Raffaello Follieri plead guilty to 14 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy, after duping investors by claiming special connections with the Vatican.

1

Robert Riggio of Manhattan, who was charged with defrauding more than 60 priests over several years, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in Federal District Court yesterday, prosecutors said. Mr. Riggio, 60, faces up to 40 years in prison when he is sent...

1

Alan Ellis, who ran the now-defunct file-sharing Web site OiNK.cd from 2004 to 2007, was found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud.

1

Credit card companies have intensified their exploitation of consumers, and Congress should respond by moving up the date when its credit card law becomes effective.

0

Investigators are still trying to solve the $81 million cyberheist from the central bank of Bangladesh in February.

1

When software engineer Girjesh Rai (33) received a message on Facebook from his uncle saying that he was admitted in hospital after an accident, Rai was deeply concerned. In the same message, his 'uncle' had also asked for Rs 15,000 immediately for treatment.

1

Attackers are using built-in features of the Chrome and Firefox Web browsers to install malicious software that can see everything stored in the browser, including saved passwords for e-mail and social network accounts, according to Italian securi...

1

Michael Neu of Slidell, La., was charged with 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering, the police said.

1

A federal judge sentenced Bernard L. Madoff to 150 years in prison for running a huge Ponzi scheme that devastated thousands of investors, calling his crimes “extraordinarily evil.”

0

The change came after hackers stole the online dating service’s data and released personal information related to more than 30 million accounts.

1

Mr. Hynes, a former MasterCard executive, will take over about nine months after a malfunction that kept cardholders from using their money.

1

Three men were charged with stealing credit information from more than 30,000 people. In the process, prosecutors say, the men stole at least $2.7 million.

1

I suspect the rent I was charged when I moved into my rent-stabilized apartment had been raised beyond what the law allows. How do I research this matter?

0

The economic offences wing (EOW) on Saturday arrested Rajneet Singh, son of BJP leader Sardar Tara Singh, in connection with the PMC Bank fraud.

0

The breach at Equifax comes on the heels of numerous cyberattacks. “It feels like there’s nothing you can really do to protect yourself,” one woman said.

1

Two lawsuits in the Knoedler & Company gallery forgery case, one of the art market’s more stunning scandals, are set to go to trial in January, a federal judge said in a ruling.

0

In this lesson, students research different types of identity-theft fraud and ways to avoid falling victim to various scams. They then create focused public service announcements in different media, targeted to individuals most susceptible to cons...

1

Securities and Exchange Commission approves tightening of rules requiring mutual funds to be true to their names; specialized funds with names suggesting that they focus on particular types of investments, like 'high growth' or 'Pacific Rim' stock...

0

Prosecutors often need secrecy to track down those behind cyberattacks, Peter J. Henning writes in his White Collar Watch column. But the need for a company victimized by hacking to disclose information – both to the victims and to shareholders – ...

1

Editorial notes that as part of $54 million settlement largely engineered by NYS Common Retirement Fund, 10 former directors of WorldCom have agreed to fork over $18 million of their own money to settle class-action lawsuit brought by fund and oth...

0

Steps such as regularly checking credit card statements can help guard against cybercrime.

1

The traders are buying hundreds of billions of dollars of United States Treasury securities on the open market in a controversial attempt to keep interest rates low and revive the economy.

0

Gas prices fall. How PayPal is changing. Another retailer may have had a data breach.

1

Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is financing a new "investigative journalism" Web site that will focus on corporate chicanery and securities fraud.

1

Virginia enacts law imposing harsh felony penalties for sending unsolicited commercial e-mail to computer users through deceptive means; law would be enforced against those who use fraudulent practices to send bulk e-mail, commonly known as spam, ...

1

Brooklyn lawyer Sandra E Roper is charged with stealing $9,000 from her client, Mary Lee Ward, and then lying about it to state grievance committee; is also accused of forging retainer agreement; pleads not guilty; photo (S)

0

The University of Connecticut has notified about 72,000 people in its computer database that their date of birth, Social Security number, address and telephone number may have been illegally accessed during the last year and a half. The univer...

0

The case stems from the 2010 season, when there was no salary cap and, the players union claims, teams worked together to keep salaries artificially low.

0

Some information is revealed about the tactics used by Internet fraudsters to get their malware ads on well-trafficked Web sites.

1

Here’s a look at the different protections available for fraudulent signature and PIN debit card transactions.

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Still struggling with 1,200 percent annual inflation, Zimbabwe’s reserve bank said it would lop three zeros off the nation’s paper currency starting today in an attempt to make sales and bookkeeping less onerous. The bank said that Zimbabweans cou...

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