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Stealing corporate information from computers to make trades certainly looks like insider trading, but it can depend on court jurisdiction.	1
The theft of consumer data from the luxury retailer appears to have involved 1.1 million credit and debit cards.	1
The German electronic payments company, where $2.1 billion went missing, cited “impending insolvency and over-indebtedness.”	0
The report includes several allegations of United Nations employees’ steering contracts to close relatives or to vendors involved in kickback schemes.	0
The Justice Department says it has broken open the largest identity fraud case so far in the United States, indicting 11 people around the world in the theft of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from computer networks at TJ Maxx stores and other big retailers. The Times asked Gary Warner, the director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who writes a blog about cyber crime, to discuss the significance of the announcement.	1
Mitchel S. Guttenberg, the UBS banker who has been charged with conspiracy and securities fraud Thursday for allegedly masterminding an insider tarding scheme, apparently got his inside dope from his perch on an elite committee at UBS that signed off on all upgrades and downgrades, Businessweek says, taking another look at the banking scandal.	0
An intrusion at a third-party vendor may have exposed cardholders’ personal information.	1
Venezuelan authorities on Monday welcomed home a painting by the artist Henri Matisse more than a decade after it had disappeared from a Caracas museum.	0
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is facing the serious charge that includes endangering the safety or a unit or outpost.	0
One of the most prominent players in the Bitcoin universe, Charles Shrem, was arrested on Sunday, accused of conspiring to facilitate drug transactions on the now-defunct online bazaar Silk Road.	1
A New York couple were arrested yesterday and charged with money laundering and receiving stolen property for using slot machines in Atlantic City to launder embezzled money, said Stuart Rabner, the New Jersey attorney general. The woman, Jamine A...	0
A Manhattan lawyer has been indicted on charges of stealing more than $1.6 million from seven clients, said Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, in an announcement yesterday. The lawyer, Campbell Holder, 58, who lives in Brooklyn...	0
This lawsuit alleges an elaborate scheme to defraud a mortgage lender, involving faked appraisals, made-up landlords and stolen identities.	0
Wall Street firms face same anti-money-laundering regulations that banks have contended with for years as well as spate of new procedures adopted after Sept 11 terrorist attacks; broad variety of other industries is also affected by sweeping new r...	0
Bernard L. Madoff, who was accused of running one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history, was sentenced to 150 years in prison.	0
Billy McFarland had pleaded guilty to wire-fraud charges in the Fyre debacle as well as two more fraud counts for running a sham ticket-selling business.	1
The economic offences wing (EOW) of state Crime Branch on Sunday arrested an executive of a leading private non-banking financial company (NBFC) and his brother for allegedly cheating the company of nearly Rs 1.43 crore in last one year. Sashikanta Sahoo, executive of Sundaram Finance's branch in Balasore, and his younger brother Srikanta Sahoo, who owns a private business entity, were arrested from Bhadrak.	0
A collection of online stores offer murder for pay. Researchers say they are scams, but people who want someone dead aren’t listening.	1
Ten people were arrested in Karol Bagh after a gang tried to fraudulently withdraw Rs 12 crore from Punjab National Bank in the name of an NGO. The mastermind of the racket used a cheque of Everest Bank in Nepal that has a collaboration with PNB to transfer the money to the NGO’s account.	0
Former Merrill Lynch stockbrokers Kenneth E Mahaffy Jr and Timothy J O'Connell, Lehman Brother Holdings broker David G Ghysels Jr and A B Watley Group executives Robert F Malin, Linus Nwaigwe, Michael Picone and Keevin H Leonard plead not guilty t...	0
ICICI Bank has a warning for its customers. In an email sent to its customers, the bank is informing its customers about the rise in KYC frauds during the coronavirus pandemic.	1
The attack on a United States server is the latest in a flurry of hacker intrusions into corporate Web sites.	1
Federal authorities yesterday arrested a Miami man who they said made more than $1 million in a hacking scheme involving the resale of Internet telephone service. The suspect is accused of surreptitiously routing calls through the lines of leg...	1
The Better Business Bureau recently warned consumers to be wary of iPad-related fraud.	1
Gift cards are popular with consumers but are often the target of thieves. Bloomingdale’s seems to be verifying online purchases of gift cards via follow-up calls by telephone.	1
Be careful of the friends you make on social networking sites and believing the promises they make, for on the other side might be a Nigerian fraudster looking to dupe you of your hard-earned savings. Following the arrest of four Nigerians from New Delhi by the cybercrime department of Visakhapatnam city police, the police is looking to spread this message to port city residents.	1
Frauds through “Know Your Customer” or KYC trick has seen a sharp rise in the city, with over 50 complaints of swindling on the pretext of Paytm KYC update being reported to the Cyber Crime Investigating Cell (CCIC) of the UT police in just a fortnight.	1
The police have closed an inquiry into the mauling death of a zookeeper at the Denver Zoo, clearing the zoo of criminal wrongdoing.	0
When a thief steals your personal data, who really pays?	1
Retired director general of police and former police commissioner of the city, Satish Sharma, became a victim of a debit card fraud after Rs 4,899 was debited fraudulently from his account in State Bank of India using Sharma’s debit card details.	1
Nonbank A.T.M. owners are suing MasterCard and Visa, accusing them of price fixing.	0
Article on growing problem of click fraud, which most commonly happens when renegade partners, who get portion of fees earned by search engine each time paid link is clicked, or rival companies deliberately generate excessive clicks that do not re...	1
Markit, a data warehouse controlled by several big banks, said it had been notified that it was the subject of an inquiry.	1
In seeking to prove insider trading was behind a well-timed purchase of options in H.J. Heinz, the S.E.C. will need to figure out who was actually involved in the trading, then link that person or group to a source of information about the deal.	0
To combat a rise in cybercrime, the European Commission is considering a plan to require some of the biggest Web businesses to report the loss or theft of personal data, or risk sanctions and fines.	1
As the videoconferencing platform’s popularity has surged, Zoom has scrambled to address a series of data privacy and security problems.	1
Regulators will begin an investigation into the online market after hackers gained access to the personal data of 145 million customers.	1
By telephone, phishing emails, text messages or social media promotions, unscrupulous actors are using their warped creativity to separate people from their cash.	1
A consumer group has prepared an “anti-phishing” tip sheet.	1
“The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring” was the only thing missing after a heist near Amsterdam. Whoever was behind the theft made the move on the artist’s birthday, knowingly or not.	0
A New Jersey man and his two sons pleaded guilty Thursday to insider trading charges in what federal authorities described as a crooked family business that took in more than $3.7 million over four years. Zvi Rosenthal, 62, of Tenafly, N.J., pleaded guilty to a conspiracy count before Judge John Gleeson of United States District Court in Brooklyn. Mr. Rosenthal was preceded by his son Amir and followed by his son Ayal in admitting the conspiracy.	0
A report by a Russian cybersecurity firm says a global gang of thieves penetrated banking systems to steal millions of dollars.	1
Officials say they plan to reassign a parking judge who works for a city agency largely supervised by his wife though agency officials have denied any wrongdoing.	0
Anthony Murgio, who is thought to have information about a cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase, appeared in court on Monday.	1
With security breaches on the rise, companies are beginning to offer new alert systems that tell consumers when their usernames, passwords, credit cards, Social Security numbers and the like pop up on on the Internet.	1
Instances of unlawful transactions involving internet banking, ATMs and credit and debit cards shot up over 50% to cross 52,000 in 2018-19, with Delhi being the ATM fraud capital accounting for nearly 27% of the reported cases of "siphoning off of cash".	1
John F. Haggerty Jr., found guilty of stealing campaign money from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, $750,000 worth, and sentenced to serve one and a third to four years in prison, is being treated far more harshly than the despised Bernard L. Madoff.	0
Judges on Monday cleared the way for counties to pursue the automaker, which has already paid more than $20 billion in federal penalties for cheating on pollution tests, under local laws.	0
DJH Mechanical Associates Ltd pleads guilty in Brooklyn federal court on charges that it falsely reported to New York City School Construction Authority that it had provided its employees benefits required by government contractors (S)	0
The head of track and field’s national governing body sent a strongly worded letter to President Bush asking him not to pardon disgraced sprinter Marion Jones.	0
Paytm Payments Bank, which also houses the Paytm e-wallet has filed an FIR against 3,500 fraudulent numbers. The company said telecom players are “not doing enough” to counter the rising menace of online fraud, where consumers are duped via SMS and calls. While others are also facing the same issue, Paytm is the first firm to come out with an official statement.	1
Steven Croman, whose companies own more than 150 buildings citywide, agreed to serve a year in jail and pay a $5 million tax settlement.	0
In an unusual move, President Bush on Wednesday reversed his decision, announced a day earlier, to pardon Isaac R. Toussie.	0
The top lawyer in the agency’s Seattle office will appear in court on Thursday on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.	1
Defaults, unfair contracts and other hurdles have created a crisis in private student loans.	0
Naomi Campbell was once again accused of letting her temper get the best of her, but the case has already been closed.	0
The former chairman and two other past senior executives of Rite Aid Corp. were indicted today in what authorities described as a far-reaching securities and accounting fraud.	0
A Red Cross volunteer in Texas and his sister were arrested on Tuesday on charges of stealing more than 100 debit cards from the charity to obtain goods fraudulently, a plot that may have cost the Red Cross more than $230,000 donated for Hurricane...	1
French National Library chief curator Michel Garel admits stealing and selling one 16th-century Hebrew manuscript, which was sold for $300,000 at Christie's in New York in 2000, and acknowledges falsifying document authorizing manuscript to leave ...	0
The I.R.S. stepped up its crackdown on abuses of “captive insurance” in January, but the vehicle may prove its worth during the coronavirus outbreak.	0
In a bid to warn customers against fraudsters who may attempt to exploit the EMI moratorium scheme, leading banks are reaching out to their customers to caution them against 'EMI moratorium frauds'. Imposters may contact you to help postpone your EMI payments and request you to share OTP, CVV, password or PIN or any bank account details, warned banks.	1
A 44-year-old woman was duped of over Rs8 lakh by a man with whom she chatted for over two months after his introduction as a United Kingdom resident on a matrimonial website.	1
A.G. Edwards will pay nearly $4 million for a role in the mutual fund market-timing trading scandal. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday accused the firm of failing to supervise several brokers who allegedly engaged in illegal market-timing activities.	0
In a case linked to Bernard L. Madoff in 1992, federal investigators took some explanations at face value.	0
If your Social Security number is stolen, you should ask your bank to use an alternative means of verifying your identity.	1
In his weekly radio address, the president said Americans “have a right to not get ripped off by the sudden rate hikes, unfair penalties and hidden fees that have become all too common to our credit card industry.”	0
A former Goldman Sachs computer programmer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he stole code from the bank’s lucrative high-frequency trading platform before leaving for another company last year, Reuters reported.	1
New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd is fined $5,000 by NBA for shoving and pushing Indiana Pacers point guard Jamaal Tinsley (S)	0
The social network is fighting off an attack from cybercriminals again.	1
Nicole Perlroth, The Times’s cybersecurity reporter, charted out the matters she will be exploring in the days ahead.	1
Reader's Digest reportedly agrees to pay $171,000 in restitution to consumers who bought its products in Connecticut and $25,000 to cover state costs in suit filed by Attorney Gen Richard Blumenthal charging deceptive marketing of its sweepstakes ...	0
A Brooklyn man has been indicted on charges of using other people’s credit cards to make purchases and cash withdrawals of more than $67,000, prosecutors said yesterday. The man, Kevin Griffith, 27, is charged on 211 counts, including grand larcen...	1
Major credit card companies and the payment processor at the center of the country's largest data breach were called to Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify about a security compromise that exposed some 40 million cardholders to fraud. But muc...	1
French prosecutors are looking into charges that three Ikea France executives had personal data collected on employees and customers.	1
The cybercrime police have registered a case against an unidentified person for siphoning off Rs 34 lakh from six bank accounts of a company through 20 transactions.	1
The country’s privacy agency imposed a fine of $142,000 and said that Google’s Latitude phone-tracking service continued to violate privacy rules.	1
Aired Thursday night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC: So you probably know that The New York Times was able to find Kristen, the 22-year-old prostitute that Eliot Spitzer allegedly paid $1,000 an hour. Her real name is Ashley Dupre. Here’s what’s going to happen with her. She’s going to pose naked for Playboy, she’ll do a season of “Celebrity Apprentice,” maybe a “Surreal Life,” then she’ll top it off by having a baby with Pauly Shore.	0
Russia, under pressure from Western industrial democracies, adopts new law to combat money laundering; Russian officials say law brings nation into compliance with international standards; law requires banks and other financial institutions to rep...	0
In a sophisticated cyberattack, the hackers infiltrated the banks’ networks, siphoning off gigabytes of data, including checking and savings account information.	1
What do tickets to Jay-Z, the Yankees and “The Book of Mormon” have in common? Authorities say a criminal ring used stolen credit-card information to buy those hard-to-get tickets and pocketed the money when they resold them.	1
Alarmed with the rising cases of automated teller machine frauds, including cloning of debit cards, the State Bank of India (SBI), which has the maximum share of the ATMs across Madhya Pradesh, has come up with a massive operation to make them ‘tamper proof’.	1
The new South Korean president’s intelligence chief and top anti-corruption aide face allegations of receiving bribes from Samsung.	0
In the largest identity theft case ever, stolen data was sold and used to make fraudulent purchases.	1
Russia is released from international blacklist of countries with inadequate monitoring of money-laundering, in move seen in part as political gesture to Pres Vladimir V Putin; Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, international agency ...	0
State Representative David M. Nangle, a Democrat, was arrested on 28 counts that included charges of wire and bank fraud, as well as lying to the I.R.S.	1
Chalk up one more term from the credit debacle. Nina loans - an abbreviation that stands for “No income, no assets.”	0
Shares of Altria Group fall 6 percent on concern Illinois court might reinstate $12 billion deposit company was required to pay to appeal legal judgment, which found unit of conmpany liable for misleading smokers with deceptive cigarette ads; appe...	0
A report by French regulators said Jérôme Kerviel, the trader who lost Société Générale $7.2 billion, took advantage of managers’ negligence to camouflage his trades.	0
The recent cyberattacks on big American banks raise the question: Is it a good idea to hide some cash at home, just in case?	1
Beacon Hill Service Corp is convicted of illegally receiving and transferring billions of dollars from shell companies, private investors and exchange houses to offshore accounts, cheating government out of millions of dollars; Beacon Hill shut do...	0
House Energy and Commerce Committee, possibly seeking tighter regulations, schedules hearing into cottage industry of con artists seeking to trick mobile phone companies into giving away phone numbers and calling records of unwitting subscribers; ...	0
Antiquities collector Oded Golan is arrested on charges of fraud for claiming ownership of Jewish buriel box belonged to James, alleged brother of Jesus, Israel's Antiquities Authority declared box forgery last month; photo (s)	0
The art world can be a minefield when it comes to authenticating a piece of art. A collector needs to follow a checklist before spending large sums.	0
The largest credit card issuers were still uncertain which customer accounts had been affected by a computer security breach reported by MasterCard. Page C4.	1
The department of revenue has identified 931 cases of fraudulent GST refund claims through data analytics and has now tasked the GST data analytics wing to scrutinise all past and pending refund claims filed all over the country for inverted duty structure, sources said.	1
SINGAPORE, Aug. 21 — Philippine authorities dismissed all charges today against Onel A. de Guzman, the 24-year-old college dropout whom investigators had accused of responsibility for a destructive computer e-mail program that wreaked billions of ...	1
As the financial crisis has continued to unfold, new suspicions of fraud have been emerging — and with them a need to find whether there is evidence of wrongdoing.	0
AllClear ID, an identity protection service that scans the Internet for stolen information, will offer a free app for the iPhone and iPad to alert users when their personal or financial records have been compromised. The app alerts users if their ...	1
A 22-year-old engineering student has been cheated of Rs 60,000 by a gang of miscreants who contacted her over phone and posed as representatives of an online job portal.	1
LexisNexis Group, major compiler of legal and consumer information, says that information on about 30,000 people--including names, addresses and Social Security numbers--may have fallen into hands of thieves; FBI and Treasury Department are invest...	0

Stealing corporate information from computers to make trades certainly looks like insider trading, but it can depend on court jurisdiction.

1

The theft of consumer data from the luxury retailer appears to have involved 1.1 million credit and debit cards.

1

The German electronic payments company, where $2.1 billion went missing, cited “impending insolvency and over-indebtedness.”

0

The report includes several allegations of United Nations employees’ steering contracts to close relatives or to vendors involved in kickback schemes.

0

The Justice Department says it has broken open the largest identity fraud case so far in the United States, indicting 11 people around the world in the theft of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from computer networks at TJ Maxx stores and other big retailers. The Times asked Gary Warner, the director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who writes a blog about cyber crime, to discuss the significance of the announcement.

1

Mitchel S. Guttenberg, the UBS banker who has been charged with conspiracy and securities fraud Thursday for allegedly masterminding an insider tarding scheme, apparently got his inside dope from his perch on an elite committee at UBS that signed off on all upgrades and downgrades, Businessweek says, taking another look at the banking scandal.

0

An intrusion at a third-party vendor may have exposed cardholders’ personal information.

1

Venezuelan authorities on Monday welcomed home a painting by the artist Henri Matisse more than a decade after it had disappeared from a Caracas museum.

0

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is facing the serious charge that includes endangering the safety or a unit or outpost.

0

One of the most prominent players in the Bitcoin universe, Charles Shrem, was arrested on Sunday, accused of conspiring to facilitate drug transactions on the now-defunct online bazaar Silk Road.

1

A New York couple were arrested yesterday and charged with money laundering and receiving stolen property for using slot machines in Atlantic City to launder embezzled money, said Stuart Rabner, the New Jersey attorney general. The woman, Jamine A...

0

A Manhattan lawyer has been indicted on charges of stealing more than $1.6 million from seven clients, said Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, in an announcement yesterday. The lawyer, Campbell Holder, 58, who lives in Brooklyn...

0

This lawsuit alleges an elaborate scheme to defraud a mortgage lender, involving faked appraisals, made-up landlords and stolen identities.

0

Wall Street firms face same anti-money-laundering regulations that banks have contended with for years as well as spate of new procedures adopted after Sept 11 terrorist attacks; broad variety of other industries is also affected by sweeping new r...

0

Bernard L. Madoff, who was accused of running one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history, was sentenced to 150 years in prison.

0

Billy McFarland had pleaded guilty to wire-fraud charges in the Fyre debacle as well as two more fraud counts for running a sham ticket-selling business.

1

The economic offences wing (EOW) of state Crime Branch on Sunday arrested an executive of a leading private non-banking financial company (NBFC) and his brother for allegedly cheating the company of nearly Rs 1.43 crore in last one year. Sashikanta Sahoo, executive of Sundaram Finance's branch in Balasore, and his younger brother Srikanta Sahoo, who owns a private business entity, were arrested from Bhadrak.

0

A collection of online stores offer murder for pay. Researchers say they are scams, but people who want someone dead aren’t listening.

1

Ten people were arrested in Karol Bagh after a gang tried to fraudulently withdraw Rs 12 crore from Punjab National Bank in the name of an NGO. The mastermind of the racket used a cheque of Everest Bank in Nepal that has a collaboration with PNB to transfer the money to the NGO’s account.

0

Former Merrill Lynch stockbrokers Kenneth E Mahaffy Jr and Timothy J O'Connell, Lehman Brother Holdings broker David G Ghysels Jr and A B Watley Group executives Robert F Malin, Linus Nwaigwe, Michael Picone and Keevin H Leonard plead not guilty t...

0

ICICI Bank has a warning for its customers. In an email sent to its customers, the bank is informing its customers about the rise in KYC frauds during the coronavirus pandemic.

1

The attack on a United States server is the latest in a flurry of hacker intrusions into corporate Web sites.

1

Federal authorities yesterday arrested a Miami man who they said made more than $1 million in a hacking scheme involving the resale of Internet telephone service. The suspect is accused of surreptitiously routing calls through the lines of leg...

1

The Better Business Bureau recently warned consumers to be wary of iPad-related fraud.

1

Gift cards are popular with consumers but are often the target of thieves. Bloomingdale’s seems to be verifying online purchases of gift cards via follow-up calls by telephone.

1

Be careful of the friends you make on social networking sites and believing the promises they make, for on the other side might be a Nigerian fraudster looking to dupe you of your hard-earned savings. Following the arrest of four Nigerians from New Delhi by the cybercrime department of Visakhapatnam city police, the police is looking to spread this message to port city residents.

1

Frauds through “Know Your Customer” or KYC trick has seen a sharp rise in the city, with over 50 complaints of swindling on the pretext of Paytm KYC update being reported to the Cyber Crime Investigating Cell (CCIC) of the UT police in just a fortnight.

1

The police have closed an inquiry into the mauling death of a zookeeper at the Denver Zoo, clearing the zoo of criminal wrongdoing.

0

When a thief steals your personal data, who really pays?

1

Retired director general of police and former police commissioner of the city, Satish Sharma, became a victim of a debit card fraud after Rs 4,899 was debited fraudulently from his account in State Bank of India using Sharma’s debit card details.

1

Nonbank A.T.M. owners are suing MasterCard and Visa, accusing them of price fixing.

0

Article on growing problem of click fraud, which most commonly happens when renegade partners, who get portion of fees earned by search engine each time paid link is clicked, or rival companies deliberately generate excessive clicks that do not re...

1

Markit, a data warehouse controlled by several big banks, said it had been notified that it was the subject of an inquiry.

1

In seeking to prove insider trading was behind a well-timed purchase of options in H.J. Heinz, the S.E.C. will need to figure out who was actually involved in the trading, then link that person or group to a source of information about the deal.

0

To combat a rise in cybercrime, the European Commission is considering a plan to require some of the biggest Web businesses to report the loss or theft of personal data, or risk sanctions and fines.

1

As the videoconferencing platform’s popularity has surged, Zoom has scrambled to address a series of data privacy and security problems.

1

Regulators will begin an investigation into the online market after hackers gained access to the personal data of 145 million customers.

1

By telephone, phishing emails, text messages or social media promotions, unscrupulous actors are using their warped creativity to separate people from their cash.

1

A consumer group has prepared an “anti-phishing” tip sheet.

1

“The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring” was the only thing missing after a heist near Amsterdam. Whoever was behind the theft made the move on the artist’s birthday, knowingly or not.

0

A New Jersey man and his two sons pleaded guilty Thursday to insider trading charges in what federal authorities described as a crooked family business that took in more than $3.7 million over four years. Zvi Rosenthal, 62, of Tenafly, N.J., pleaded guilty to a conspiracy count before Judge John Gleeson of United States District Court in Brooklyn. Mr. Rosenthal was preceded by his son Amir and followed by his son Ayal in admitting the conspiracy.

0

A report by a Russian cybersecurity firm says a global gang of thieves penetrated banking systems to steal millions of dollars.

1

Officials say they plan to reassign a parking judge who works for a city agency largely supervised by his wife though agency officials have denied any wrongdoing.

0

Anthony Murgio, who is thought to have information about a cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase, appeared in court on Monday.

1

With security breaches on the rise, companies are beginning to offer new alert systems that tell consumers when their usernames, passwords, credit cards, Social Security numbers and the like pop up on on the Internet.

1

Instances of unlawful transactions involving internet banking, ATMs and credit and debit cards shot up over 50% to cross 52,000 in 2018-19, with Delhi being the ATM fraud capital accounting for nearly 27% of the reported cases of "siphoning off of cash".

1

John F. Haggerty Jr., found guilty of stealing campaign money from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, $750,000 worth, and sentenced to serve one and a third to four years in prison, is being treated far more harshly than the despised Bernard L. Madoff.

0

Judges on Monday cleared the way for counties to pursue the automaker, which has already paid more than $20 billion in federal penalties for cheating on pollution tests, under local laws.

0

DJH Mechanical Associates Ltd pleads guilty in Brooklyn federal court on charges that it falsely reported to New York City School Construction Authority that it had provided its employees benefits required by government contractors (S)

0

The head of track and field’s national governing body sent a strongly worded letter to President Bush asking him not to pardon disgraced sprinter Marion Jones.

0

Paytm Payments Bank, which also houses the Paytm e-wallet has filed an FIR against 3,500 fraudulent numbers. The company said telecom players are “not doing enough” to counter the rising menace of online fraud, where consumers are duped via SMS and calls. While others are also facing the same issue, Paytm is the first firm to come out with an official statement.

1

Steven Croman, whose companies own more than 150 buildings citywide, agreed to serve a year in jail and pay a $5 million tax settlement.

0

In an unusual move, President Bush on Wednesday reversed his decision, announced a day earlier, to pardon Isaac R. Toussie.

0

The top lawyer in the agency’s Seattle office will appear in court on Thursday on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

1

Defaults, unfair contracts and other hurdles have created a crisis in private student loans.

0

Naomi Campbell was once again accused of letting her temper get the best of her, but the case has already been closed.

0

The former chairman and two other past senior executives of Rite Aid Corp. were indicted today in what authorities described as a far-reaching securities and accounting fraud.

0

A Red Cross volunteer in Texas and his sister were arrested on Tuesday on charges of stealing more than 100 debit cards from the charity to obtain goods fraudulently, a plot that may have cost the Red Cross more than $230,000 donated for Hurricane...

1

French National Library chief curator Michel Garel admits stealing and selling one 16th-century Hebrew manuscript, which was sold for $300,000 at Christie's in New York in 2000, and acknowledges falsifying document authorizing manuscript to leave ...

0

The I.R.S. stepped up its crackdown on abuses of “captive insurance” in January, but the vehicle may prove its worth during the coronavirus outbreak.

0

In a bid to warn customers against fraudsters who may attempt to exploit the EMI moratorium scheme, leading banks are reaching out to their customers to caution them against 'EMI moratorium frauds'. Imposters may contact you to help postpone your EMI payments and request you to share OTP, CVV, password or PIN or any bank account details, warned banks.

1

A 44-year-old woman was duped of over Rs8 lakh by a man with whom she chatted for over two months after his introduction as a United Kingdom resident on a matrimonial website.

1

A.G. Edwards will pay nearly $4 million for a role in the mutual fund market-timing trading scandal. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday accused the firm of failing to supervise several brokers who allegedly engaged in illegal market-timing activities.

0

In a case linked to Bernard L. Madoff in 1992, federal investigators took some explanations at face value.

0

If your Social Security number is stolen, you should ask your bank to use an alternative means of verifying your identity.

1

In his weekly radio address, the president said Americans “have a right to not get ripped off by the sudden rate hikes, unfair penalties and hidden fees that have become all too common to our credit card industry.”

0

A former Goldman Sachs computer programmer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he stole code from the bank’s lucrative high-frequency trading platform before leaving for another company last year, Reuters reported.

1

New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd is fined $5,000 by NBA for shoving and pushing Indiana Pacers point guard Jamaal Tinsley (S)

0

The social network is fighting off an attack from cybercriminals again.

1

Nicole Perlroth, The Times’s cybersecurity reporter, charted out the matters she will be exploring in the days ahead.

1

Reader's Digest reportedly agrees to pay $171,000 in restitution to consumers who bought its products in Connecticut and $25,000 to cover state costs in suit filed by Attorney Gen Richard Blumenthal charging deceptive marketing of its sweepstakes ...

0

A Brooklyn man has been indicted on charges of using other people’s credit cards to make purchases and cash withdrawals of more than $67,000, prosecutors said yesterday. The man, Kevin Griffith, 27, is charged on 211 counts, including grand larcen...

1

Major credit card companies and the payment processor at the center of the country's largest data breach were called to Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify about a security compromise that exposed some 40 million cardholders to fraud. But muc...

1

French prosecutors are looking into charges that three Ikea France executives had personal data collected on employees and customers.

1

The cybercrime police have registered a case against an unidentified person for siphoning off Rs 34 lakh from six bank accounts of a company through 20 transactions.

1

The country’s privacy agency imposed a fine of $142,000 and said that Google’s Latitude phone-tracking service continued to violate privacy rules.

1

Aired Thursday night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC: So you probably know that The New York Times was able to find Kristen, the 22-year-old prostitute that Eliot Spitzer allegedly paid $1,000 an hour. Her real name is Ashley Dupre. Here’s what’s going to happen with her. She’s going to pose naked for Playboy, she’ll do a season of “Celebrity Apprentice,” maybe a “Surreal Life,” then she’ll top it off by having a baby with Pauly Shore.

0

Russia, under pressure from Western industrial democracies, adopts new law to combat money laundering; Russian officials say law brings nation into compliance with international standards; law requires banks and other financial institutions to rep...

0

In a sophisticated cyberattack, the hackers infiltrated the banks’ networks, siphoning off gigabytes of data, including checking and savings account information.

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What do tickets to Jay-Z, the Yankees and “The Book of Mormon” have in common? Authorities say a criminal ring used stolen credit-card information to buy those hard-to-get tickets and pocketed the money when they resold them.

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Alarmed with the rising cases of automated teller machine frauds, including cloning of debit cards, the State Bank of India (SBI), which has the maximum share of the ATMs across Madhya Pradesh, has come up with a massive operation to make them ‘tamper proof’.

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The new South Korean president’s intelligence chief and top anti-corruption aide face allegations of receiving bribes from Samsung.

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In the largest identity theft case ever, stolen data was sold and used to make fraudulent purchases.

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Russia is released from international blacklist of countries with inadequate monitoring of money-laundering, in move seen in part as political gesture to Pres Vladimir V Putin; Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, international agency ...

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State Representative David M. Nangle, a Democrat, was arrested on 28 counts that included charges of wire and bank fraud, as well as lying to the I.R.S.

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Chalk up one more term from the credit debacle. Nina loans - an abbreviation that stands for “No income, no assets.”

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Shares of Altria Group fall 6 percent on concern Illinois court might reinstate $12 billion deposit company was required to pay to appeal legal judgment, which found unit of conmpany liable for misleading smokers with deceptive cigarette ads; appe...

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A report by French regulators said Jérôme Kerviel, the trader who lost Société Générale $7.2 billion, took advantage of managers’ negligence to camouflage his trades.

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The recent cyberattacks on big American banks raise the question: Is it a good idea to hide some cash at home, just in case?

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Beacon Hill Service Corp is convicted of illegally receiving and transferring billions of dollars from shell companies, private investors and exchange houses to offshore accounts, cheating government out of millions of dollars; Beacon Hill shut do...

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House Energy and Commerce Committee, possibly seeking tighter regulations, schedules hearing into cottage industry of con artists seeking to trick mobile phone companies into giving away phone numbers and calling records of unwitting subscribers; ...

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Antiquities collector Oded Golan is arrested on charges of fraud for claiming ownership of Jewish buriel box belonged to James, alleged brother of Jesus, Israel's Antiquities Authority declared box forgery last month; photo (s)

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The art world can be a minefield when it comes to authenticating a piece of art. A collector needs to follow a checklist before spending large sums.

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The largest credit card issuers were still uncertain which customer accounts had been affected by a computer security breach reported by MasterCard. Page C4.

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The department of revenue has identified 931 cases of fraudulent GST refund claims through data analytics and has now tasked the GST data analytics wing to scrutinise all past and pending refund claims filed all over the country for inverted duty structure, sources said.

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SINGAPORE, Aug. 21 — Philippine authorities dismissed all charges today against Onel A. de Guzman, the 24-year-old college dropout whom investigators had accused of responsibility for a destructive computer e-mail program that wreaked billions of ...

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As the financial crisis has continued to unfold, new suspicions of fraud have been emerging — and with them a need to find whether there is evidence of wrongdoing.

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AllClear ID, an identity protection service that scans the Internet for stolen information, will offer a free app for the iPhone and iPad to alert users when their personal or financial records have been compromised. The app alerts users if their ...

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A 22-year-old engineering student has been cheated of Rs 60,000 by a gang of miscreants who contacted her over phone and posed as representatives of an online job portal.

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LexisNexis Group, major compiler of legal and consumer information, says that information on about 30,000 people--including names, addresses and Social Security numbers--may have fallen into hands of thieves; FBI and Treasury Department are invest...

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