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Con artists recycle old tricks, add a high-tech one
Michele Holota wishes she had never answered the phone that fateful day. If she hadn't, her computer wouldn't be fried right now. But when the phone rang and the caller ID said "Microsoft," she figured it might be important. What the caller told her...Tags: Corporate Crime, Allentown, Jim Thorpe, U.S. Secret Service, Microsoft Corporation
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Extortion at funerals? That's low, even for low-life scammers
Watchdog with Paul MuschickWith this being National Consumer Protection Week, I'm receiving all sorts of tips about the latest scams and how to avoid them. This list from the Bucks County Crimes Against Older Adults Task Force includes one that's new to me...... -
FirstEnergy warns of bogus bill collectors
FirstEnergy Corp. utilities are warning customers about a scam involving a telephone caller posing as an electric utility company employee threatening to shut off power unless an immediate payment is made using a prepaid debit card such as a Green Dot...Tags: FirstEnergy Corp., Corporate Crime
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Is Herbalife planning a campaign against critic Bill Ackman?
This just got personal. Herbalife Ltd. has obtained the rights to domain names such as therealbillackman.com and billackman.net, a sign that the Los Angeles nutritional products company may be planning a public campaign against one of its biggest...
Tags: Corporate Crime, Mutual Funds, Herbalife Limited
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Business accused of operating 'massive pyramid scheme'
Attorney General Jack Conway and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced today they have taken legal action against Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, an alleged global pyramid scheme operating since 2001 from its corporate headquarters in Lexington. The...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Corporate Crime, Law Enforcement
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The best way yet to proclaim love for a tax cheat
Ernst & Young LLP received the usual kid-glove treatment given to too-big-to-fail enterprises when it reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over illegal tax shelters it sold more than a decade ago. The government chose not to prosecute the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Career and Workplace, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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Baltimore man, 81, loses his home following lottery fraud
The first caller told Norman Breidenbaugh he had won $2.5 million in a foreign sweepstakes, but there was a catch: Breidenbaugh needed to send $2,000 in fees before collecting his earnings. Other calls followed, promising Breidenbaugh millions more...
Tags: Jamaica, Consumers, Alzheimer's Disease, Corporate Crime, Government Postal Delivery
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Broward sheriff's sergeant warns of FedEx email fraud
The email that claimed to be from FedEx looked real enough when it arrived in a Broward County sheriff sergeant's personal in-box. It advised that the deputy — who does not want his name used in this story because he works undercover — had a...
Tags: Corporate Crime, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Email, FedEx Corporation, Broward County
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Part four: Bankruptcy Inc.
Somewhere in the third year of Tribune Co.'s marathon Chapter 11 proceeding, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey looked out at a Delaware courtroom packed with high-priced attorneys and conceded the case had broken down into what he called a...
Tags: Tribune Company, Crime, Law and Justice, Litigation, Kenneth Liang, Aurelius Capital Management, LP
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Q&A: Meg Whitman on fixing HP and Autonomy's accounting troubles
Last month, the Los Angeles Times sat down with Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, to discuss her first 15 months on the job. The story from that interview ran earlier this month. The interview came just a few weeks after HP announced that it had...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Corporate Crime, Startups, Corporate Officers, eBay Inc.
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Howard auditor 'hot line' takes reports of fraud, abuse
Michael Mershon can get pretty stirred up about lighting. He's been working in the business for more than 30 years, most of that time in Maryland, and said he's seen local governments waste millions of dollars on lighting jobs through contract practices...Tags: Ellicott City, Corporate Crime, Labor Legislation, Ken Ulman, Howard County
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Four convicted in $154-million medical insurance fraud
L.A. NOWThe four defendants were found guilty by an Orange County jury of charges related to revenue and tax fraud for the massive scheme, according to a statement from the Orange County district attorney's office....
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