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E-mail messages that claim to be from the Internal Revenue Service asking for personal information are probably phishing scams. | 1 |
A new decision from a federal bankruptcy judge is a potential game-changer in endless lawsuits. | 0 |
Before being discovered, the student forged transcripts and recommendations that which netted him Yale admission and a $32,000 scholarship. | 0 |
The retailer said it was investigating a report that customer credit and debit card data was stolen from its systems and put up for sale online. | 1 |
Federal agents and New York City police arrest dozen Yemeni men, many of them shopkeepers in downtown Brooklyn, on charges of running illegal wire transfer service that smuggled more than $100,000 to Yemen; investigation focused on possible terror... | 0 |
The hack of 50 million Facebook accounts affects logins on hundreds of other sites. Plus, two billionaires lost big, and another shared the wealth. | 1 |
A tax shelter used at least 200 times by very rich Americans and corporations to evade capital gains taxes by manipulating rules on foreign investments was shut down yesterday by the Treasury Department. | 0 |
The Supreme Court today made it easier for companies to defraud investors, and impossible for those investors to go after companies that help out in the fraud. | 0 |
It's finally official: The convicted swindler Bernard L. Madoff, facing a lifetime behind bars for masterminding an enormous Ponzi scheme, will never work again in the securities industry. | 0 |
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, urged state officials to take action against “scam artists” reportedly marketing fake insurance policies to exploit the new law overhauling the health care system. | 0 |
The chairman of the Swedish bank resigned a week after the chief executive was fired, as the U.S. financial authorities investigate possible money laundering. | 0 |
Shiva Brent Sharma, Queens teenager, is charged with defrauding AOL customers by stealing their credit cards numbers and charging more than $30,000 worth of items; is awaiting trial on similar Internet fraud charges (S) | 1 |
A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide. | 1 |
A notorious fugitive Serbian banker accused of stealing more than $130 million in a Ponzi scheme was extradited to Serbia from the Netherlands on Friday, the Dutch authorities confirmed Sunday. | 0 |
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating a global hacker-for-hire operation that sent phishing emails to environmental groups, journalists and others. | 1 |
Requesting money through Paytm or Google Pay - the major players in the UPI-based payment space is one of the most common frauds that customers lose their money to | 1 |
Recently disclosed privacy breach at data collection company ChoicePoint, in which con artists gained access to Social Security numbers, addresses and other personal data of nearly 145,000 people, has exposed shortcomings of laws governing data-mi... | 1 |
Some banks offer free software to protect their customers against Internet hackers scheming to break into bank accounts. | 1 |
Federal prosecutors charged seven men with orchestrating an Internet scheme that infected more than four million computers with malicious software and generated profits through online advertisements. | 1 |
The casino and hotel giant said “it was confident that no financial, payment card or password data was involved in this matter.” | 1 |
Security experts were still looking through LoopPay’s systems, but said there was no indication that Samsung’s systems had been infiltrated. | 1 |
A Mohali resident has been duped of Rs 33,000 in a Paytm fraud. The victim has given a complaint to the cyber cell of Mohali police that has registered a case and is investigating the matter. | 1 |
Cybercrooks made online transactions of 3,372 pounds in London in the first week of January by cloning the credit card of a city-based software engineer, who’s currently in France with an office assignment. | 1 |
Police in Great Britain made a rare arrest in the hack of VTech, a Hong Kong electronic toymaker. The breach, which was first discovered last month, was notable for the fact that children’s information was taken. | 1 |
Little did 30-year-old IT professional Sejuti Baral know that one call to a courier service will end up with her losing six-months worth of savings. Baral lost close to Rs 88,000 in phases due to the misuse of her Unified Payments Interface (UPI) pin. | 1 |
European monitors said credit and debit cards belonging to victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 had been tampered with, the latest in a string of reports of looting at the crash site. | 1 |
Suits filed against Liberty Mutual by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal claim company fabricated quotes and made payoffs to insurance brokers in exchange for business; suits are part ... | 0 |
The New York attorney general is said to be scrutinizing eight banks that may have provided misleading information to rating agencies to inflate the grades of securities. | 0 |
Suffolk County, NY, jury convicts former plastic surgeon Richard Dombroff of grand larcency and scheming to defraud in connection with loan business for medical insurance (M) | 0 |
Herbert A. Allen, the head of the investment bank Allen & Company, was accused in a lawsuit of forging his dying cousin’s signature to protect a family ranch. | 0 |
The bill was counterfeit. How much did the shopkeeper lose? | 0 |
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo accused Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. of siphoning millions of dollars from a health care nonprofit he founded to pay for meals, vacations and campaign expenses. | 0 |
Professor Joel R. Reidenberg of Fordham University explains why the government may have put so much effort into prosecuting Sergey Aleynikov for allegedly stealing computer code from Goldman Sachs. | 1 |
The Parliament approved a measure to stop insiders from siphoning aid money, but other forms of fraud persist. | 0 |
Most people who use e-mail now know enough to be on guard against ''phishing'' messages that pretend to be from a bank or business but are actually attempts to steal passwords and other personal information. But there is evidence that among g... | 1 |
The ever-rising online-fraud cases doubled last year with 50 cases being registered with the Nashik cyber crime police station. | 1 |
Goldman Sachs, BMW and insider-trading legislation: It should be an interesting year in white-collar crime. | 0 |
Examples of contracts for deeds and reports by housing code officials in Akron, Ohio, citing problems with some homes sold by one of the larger contract sellers. | 0 |
With vast resources from stolen financial information, cyberattackers are winning a technology arms race. | 1 |
The internet company has long been criticized about how much information it keeps on users. The change applies only to new accounts. | 1 |
Goldman Sachs has been ordered to pay $20.58 million to creditors of Bayou Group, a failed hedge fund, to settle claims that the bank helped the fund perpetrate a Ponzi scheme. | 0 |
Two former executives at Endocare, a medical products company based in Irvine, Calif., were indicted Monday for allegedly helping to inflate company revenue in a fraud that cost investors more than $200 million. A former chief executive, Paul W. Mikus, and a former chief financial officer, John V. Cracchiolo, were charged with wire fraud, securities fraud, filing false statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission and lying to Endocare’s accountants. | 1 |
Thomas Parsley Jr, member of Hempstead, LI, school board, is charged with stealing debit card of Sally Thompson, principal at Jackson Annex school (S) | 0 |
Swindlers prey on people over 70, who lose millions each year to their shifting tactics. | 0 |
Columbia Gas has agreed to sell its business in the state and pay a $53 million fine, the authorities said. | 0 |
Yes Bank Limited is scheduled to release its fourth-quarter earnings report on Wednesday evening i.e. May 6, 2020. | 0 |
The police, providing photos, are trying to identify a woman who used teller machines to withdraw money from the accounts of two women who had noticed their wallets missing. | 0 |
State Bank of India (SBI) on Tuesday said instances of use of cloned ATM cards have been reported from the national capital and refund will be processed for the affected customers. All suspicious transactions should be reported to the home branch, the lender said. | 1 |
Four men in Florida and Israel were arrested in connection with investment schemes that were said to be related to a cyberattack at JPMorgan Chase. | 1 |
The system was suspended after the theft of permits worth millions of euros in a series of online attacks. | 1 |
James Bubiak and Raymond Medeiros are charged with hacking into computer system of Internet service provider Panix.com, stealing credit card numbers they found there and using them to buy games, music and food online (S) | 1 |
New York State Atty Gen Eliot Spitzer submits report as part of his lawsuit against American International Group's former chief executive, Maurice R Greenberg, contending that Greenberg unfairly enriched himself and other AIG executives in series ... | 0 |
Ten men, including a former Securities and Exchange Commission employee, were arrested Wednesday over a $12 million scheme to cheat investors using a Manhattan boiler-room operation with mob links, The Associated Press reported. | 0 |
Nineteen men have been arrested on charges related to a check counterfeiting ring, the Westchester County district attorney, Jeanine F. Pirro, said yesterday. Ms. Pirro said investigators followed the men, who were operating from an Elmsford motel... | 0 |
Nation's largest issuers of credit cards are still uncertain which customer accounts were affected by computer security breach at CardSystems Solutions, processing company; MasterCard has said more than 40 million credit card accounts were exposed... | 1 |
Richard F. Smith, the credit bureau’s former top executive, told lawmakers that an “individual” had failed to ensure a problem in Equifax’s software was fixed. | 0 |
Shares in Lehman Brothers plummeted more than 10 percent in early-morning trading Monday, after pre-announcing a $2.8 billion loss for its second quarter and disclosing that it will seek $6 billion in additional capital. Yet the drop is only the l... | 0 |
First Data Corp admits no wrongdoing but agrees to pay $8 million to settle New York State Banking Department charges that its Western Union division violated federal law by failing to report potential money launderers who sent or received over $1... | 0 |
Not so long ago, highly leveraged companies could get loans to bail themselves out. Now they can’t. | 0 |
Some tips for avoiding scams on eBay and other online auction sites (S) | 1 |
A lawsuit by a Ukrainian-Russian developer highlights the lucrative business of accommodating wealthy foreigners’ interests in getting access to the Trump administration. | 0 |
James Barzola, worker who maintained ticket vending machines for Long Island Rail Road, is charged with stealing more than $35,000 worth of MetroCards from them (S) | 1 |
Seven marines and a Navy corpsman are being charged in connection with the shooting death of an Iraqi civilian in April. | 0 |
New York City charges that H&R Block ads about its Instant Money service for tax filers who are due refunds do not make it clear how high the interest rate is on these loans; company dismisses lawsuit (S) | 0 |
Reckless auto lending shows that more, not less, regulation of consumer financial services is needed. | 0 |
The retailer disclosed that the hackers stole a broader trove of data than originally reported, including mailing and email addresses, phone numbers and names. | 1 |
The restaurant chain said Tuesday that it was investigating a possible data breach. If confirmed, it will the fifth major retail chain to have suffered a cyberattack in recent months. | 1 |
Credit Suisse has been sued for $24 billion by property owners who contend that the Swiss bank schemed to defraud investors in several resort communities, including the bankrupted Yellowstone Club. | 0 |
The reported security breach highlights rising worries about cybertheft in a country where few expect the central government to respect their privacy. | 1 |
By carving the stock market into specialized slices, these funds may tempt shareholders to take imprudent risks in the quest for the next big thing. | 0 |
A computer consultant was charged yesterday with stealing computer equipment from the Sachem Central School District and selling it on eBay. Donald Meritz, 51, of Farmingdale, pleaded not guilty to a charge of third-degree grand larceny at an arra... | 1 |
To head off fraud, PayPal gathers information about prospective customers, including a file of e-mail and postal addresses, before they make their first purchase. | 1 |
The CBI is conducting searches in 169 locations across the country in connection with 35 bank fraud cases registered by the agency involving funds of over Rs 7,000 crore, officials said on Tuesday. | 0 |
Long told that they were safe from computer viruses and malware attacks, Apple users last month fell victim to the largest-scale malware attack on Macs to date. Security experts now estimate that the malware made cyber criminals $10,000 a day. | 1 |
A 41-year-old man who had applied for a internet-based TV connection was duped of Rs 1.4 lakh by a cyber fraudster. | 1 |
The Koobface gang, a Russian-based group, has grown wealthy by apparently spreading a computer worm on Facebook and other social networks and cashing in on various schemes. | 1 |
McAfee, the Internet security company, said the attacks were similar to but less sophisticated than those Google suffered last year. | 1 |
They stole $200,000 to $270,000 from the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, officials said. | 0 |
It’s difficult to determine how and where companies like Facebook went wrong, which makes regulation challenging. | 1 |
The cyber cell of Port division busted a bank fraud gang operating from Jharkhand-Bengal border following an alert by two Delhi-based power utility firms. The firms told the cops that some online wallets were being used repeatedly to pay up pending electricity bills in NCR. | 1 |
The proposed penalty, for a breach that exposed the data of 500,000 customers, comes under Europe’s landmark privacy law. | 1 |
The Federal Trade Commission and the State of Florida say the companies used software designed to trick consumers into thinking their computers had bugs or errors that needed to be fixed. | 1 |
Computer security researchers have found a huge cache of stolen financial information. | 1 |
Justice Joseph R Cannizzaro rules that National Collector's Mint Inc committed fraud by marketing its coin commemorating Sept 11 attacks as legally authorized government issue; company said coin was worth $49, but Atty Gen Eliot Spitzer puts figur... | 0 |
Four men, including two Russian intelligence agents, face 47 criminal charges, including conspiracy, computer fraud, economic espionage, theft of trade secrets and aggravated identity theft. | 1 |
Two former executives of the Metropolitan New York Council on Jewish Poverty were charged with grand larceny, money laundering, conspiracy and filing false documents. | 0 |
Fraudsters have found a new way to cheat citizens with the launch of FASTag in the country. The scamster are trying to siphon money from the bank accounts of gullible citizens through UPI on the pretext of helping people to register and get their FASTag working. | 1 |
It turns out a South Carolina man was entitled to $763,000 he didn’t know about, the state treasurer said. Could there be a similar payout for you? | 0 |
As companies continue to collect more data about their users, they need to be held accountable for breaches of that data, experts opine. But just how is that going to happen? | 1 |
A New Financial Deal, which may follow this financial crisis, should included the dreaded “R” word — regulation — starting in the mortgage market. | 0 |
The rise of proctoring software to deter cheating alarms privacy advocates. Some students and professors find it invasive, too. | 1 |
Gideon Yu, the former chief financial officer of YouTube and current chief financial officer of Facebook, is one of the most notable new executives in Silicon Valley. But while Mr. Yu operated in high-tech’s highest circles over the last two years, an impersonator was quietly using his name and credit card number to make fraudulent purchases. | 1 |
Dutchess County, NY, grand jury hands up indictment charging Francis Zarro with 39 counts of fraud; he is accused of preying on affluent people and successful businesses with array of schemes in which he exchanged promises for cash, which he kept ... | 0 |
The authorities accused Yaniris Balbuena of conspiring to launder thousands of dollars in drug proceeds related to a large-scale heroin organization in the Bronx. | 0 |
On Friday, Target confirmed that cybercriminals had managed to steal encrypted PIN data for its customers, in what is officially the second largest breach of a retailer in history. | 1 |
BP’s Russian partners said that a general shareholders’ meeting for a joint venture had been held in violation of Russian law. | 0 |
It has been a bad week for Gina Rinehart, the wealthiest woman in Asia. The mining magnate from Australia is being sued by three of her four children for control of a trust fund worth billions of dollars. She has characterized them as slackers who... | 0 |
Sergey Aleynikov is accused of stealing the software that Goldman Sachs uses to make rapid-fire trades in the financial markets. | 1 |
Clayton Chan, former Homestore vice president, and Geoffrey Infeld, former salesman, will plead guilty to charges they participated in fraudulent transactions to inflate company's advertising revenue; former employees Gregory Antoniono also agrees... | 0 |
Jérôme Kerviel’s supervisor has filed a claim to join Société Générale and investors as victims former trader’s unauthorized bets, which the bank blamed for a record 4.9 billion euro trading loss. | 0 |
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