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International with governments join forces for the protection of consumers in terms of cross-border fraud.

Fake systems lotteries, lotteries and credit disadvantages, national borders, the fight will be easier thanks to new international guidelines was published today.

Consumer Affairs Minister Gerry Sutcliffe welcomed the guidelines published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as part of its new drive to fight against international fraud on the Internet and fraud.

Gerry Sutcliffe said: “Scams can be very persuasive and too many people under their empty promises. British tens of thousands of consumers were victims of fraud fake lotteries from afar, like Canada and the Australia. Fraud International strike quickly, thousands of victimizes Consumers disappear in a short time and then, with the proceeds of their disadvantages. “Guidelines, which was negotiated and agreed by the Committee of the OECD policy consumers, the general principles for international cooperation. Special provisions are: - The introduction of a warning system, other countries on fraud, the impact may be: - A national contact point for clear channels of communication and collaboration, and - another look at the benefits of implementation to allow monetary authorities to repair the benefit of consumers name.

FTC SEC Crack Down on Media fraudsters

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) in the process of attempts by several events and entertainment media, businesses, the burden of investing the possibility of “fraud. The survey covered 66 companies, is accused of defrauding investors $ 43 million. How freedom of the press currently no hearing date has been set.

According to reports by the FTC, Scams number of promotions for making infomercials on a plan for an Internet casino games.

A company that appears on several occasions on the list was accessible Media, which is headquartered in Las Vegas, which is the parent company of Sterling Multi-Media. Furthermore, mentioned are two Media Sales growth enterprises called Financial Consultants, San Diego, Etats-venture and activation, Denver. Several media affordable subsidiaries are on the list of 66 companies.

“[The FTC] focuses on remedies available to the media,” said Gregory Ashe, a lawyer for the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “They were sold to the media for consumers time and a lot of promises fabulous returns in the short term.”

The FTC has charged that the defendants made by telemarketers unsolicited calls, potential investors can buy units of media owners the right to share the proceeds from the sale of products with DRTV ads. According to the FTC, the telemarketers told investors that the products were offered on television, for $ 20 each, while the cost of goods amounted to $ 5, $ 15 obtaining benefits for investors. The marketing has told potential investors that everyone is on the spot “almost sure” to generate sales of at least five, according to the FTC charges.

Aqua Products Bells, filled with water dumbbells, and The Talking Pet day. Sterling also sells a plastic Wrap-Cutter by the ads.

“The thing is, misleading, is that the misrepresentation of consumers, and it is the consumers’ money, they are, with the purchase of media,” said Ashe. “Finally, everything collapses, because the number of investors is so big, you can not afford former investors. A good number of people burned, as in all Ponzi Schemes “.

Dozens of arrests in Crack Down foodstuffs stamp trafficking in human beings.

Agents of repression implementation of a federal raid on food stamp trafficking arrested dozens of bartenders, grocers, and other suspected drug traffickers on Friday, to the detriment of trade cocaine and money for food stamps.

The arrests were part of an effort on the agriculture division for the eradication of fraud in connection with $ 27 billion a year food stamp program, the federal government’s largest welfare. In the first seven weeks after the raid, 106 people were arrested, charged or convicted.

More arrests or charges, many nationals of dollars of fraud, are likely in the coming weeks, federal officials said.

“Author of the program will not be tolerated,” said Secretary of Agriculture Daniel R. Glickman. The operation, he said, “is an example of what the Clinton administration is currently and will continue to do so, to ensure that food stamps for men and children really need. ”

The Division of food and consumer policy has recently estimated that unscrupulous food paid in cash for approximately $ 815 million in food stamps in 1993.

Nearly Ocilla, in southern Georgia, the hotel fired on Friday, arresting 60 people charged with selling crack and cocaine powder for food stamps, Division of Agriculture said investigators.

At Brownsville, Tex., 20 people were arrested on charges that the foods they buy stamps for cash at 50 cents on the dollar, said officials.

Among the research were a grocery store owner and workers and local workers in taverns, restaurants and two garages.

Federal investigators have explained that they had to determine where the suspected drug traffickers in Georgia and those arrested in Texas, food stamps, in which she pleads for the purchase of money or cocaine.

Feds & States internet auction fraud

The Federal Trade Commission Attorneys General and 29 countries have an approach of the harsh repression of the authorities to the Internet-auction protect fraudsters have bilked thousands of consumers of their money and goods.

The difficult process has resulted so far only 57 criminal and civil implementation actions. EBay fraud is the one and the biggest category of complaints in regard to the Internet, the FTC Consumer Sentinel database, which included more than 51000 complaints at auction in 2002.

“The best way to fight against fraud at Internet auctions, it is a team approach to enforcement authorities,” said Howard Beales, director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “We are working with partners virtually coast to coast to stop fraudsters in the virtual world. These types of law enforcement cooperation will help to ensure that the online auction, fraud will go away from the screen . ”

A large number of cases of fraud simple, where consumers allegedly “won” the supply of products on an Internet site auction, sent in his money, but never received the goods.

The FTC argued that in one case, the accused, in connection with fraud auction series of identity theft to conceal their identities and divert the blame on victims of identity theft. In this case, the FTC charges that, since the beginning of 1999, an Internet operator in constant evolution of its auctions account name to conceal the fact that, although he accepted payment, it ‘ has not promised goods.

According to the FTC in 2001, it added a new wrinkle. While it claims to continue to communicate and does not pay for a product he never delivered, he began series, identity theft. The FTC argued that in bank accounts and postal boxes to other names of people, straight, and that the payment to them. Consumers and enforcement authorities believe the victims of identity theft were those who had bilked consumers of their money.

According to the FTC, identity theft of its victims were people with whom he feuded, people whose identity information he and an accomplice, registers in the suburbs of Chicago, a hotel, and even death. A U.S. court in Chicago has fought in areas fraudsters and frozen the defendant to preserve the heritage for consumers of legal protection.

PayStar acquires prepaid E-Commerce provider PAIDCard.Net

PayStar Communications Corporation (OTCBB: PYST) Nevada bought PAIDCard.net, anonymous prepaid debit card platform.

PayStar owns and operates eight departments fully integrated in the USA. These services include Internet kiosks, management of ATM cash and wireless credit card machines, and private fee-card phones, the language television and data services and multi-media advertising.

PAIDCard is a secure solution for online purchases for the benefit of consumers and e-commerce merchant.

“PayStar’s nearly 8000 Retail customers can now offer a prepaid Internet access and e-commerce solution for consumers of financial credit in question, which have so far been unable to access the new economy” , Said WD Yotty, CEO of PayStar. “What we did here today and E-Commerce capacity for millions of Americans, for the first time!”

The PAIDCard avoid the tax burden on the backs of online merchants, while the anonymity of online consumers. The fraud is considerably reduced with this method of payment, PayStar claims, greatly reduce taxes and traders engaged in conduct additional revenue e-commerce sites.

PAIDCard are sold directly to consumers by PayStar’s Web site, retail and in the context of related Web sites. This mixture of bricks and mortar and online access allows the purchase of PayStar’s PAIDCard for cash or credit card.

With this acquisition puts PayStar the rapid expansion, which allows the company has a growth rate of over 250 percent in 2000, said Yotty. PayStar expected at the end of 2000 with a turnover of $ 12 million. In 2001, the company a turnover of $ 50 million, Yotty said.

High national court to determine Nevada Powers rate appeal.

According to the current state of the Supreme Court in Nevada Power Co. ’s 2002 appeal decision has raised Regulatory Commission indicates that more than half the $ 922 million increase is anticipated that the controversy over the proposal ‘purchasing power for a contract with Merrill Lynch.

And finally, if the judges agree Nevada Power, that the public should Utilities Commission decision to reduce its $ 437 million at his request, the local distribution of energy could increase the price as much as 23 per cent more a year. Otherwise, get off any event, plus interest on the lost revenue, could take place over two or three years.

Observers think today most oral arguments swirl around Dan Gordon, above dealers in the energy field, Merrill Lynch in 1999, was sentenced to prison for wire fraud and other federal taxes.

Oklahoma ripe for a crisis of mortgage fraud in the future experts say.

Oklahoma has not been widely disseminated by the mortgage fraud, warns that the FBI has recently affected by certain parts of the country, but the environment is for them a growing problem here, the local regulatory authorities and industry experts say.

Steven Plaisance, President of the Oklahoma Mortgage Bankers Association, said the growth in property values and the persistence of low interest rates, has inspired a boom in mortgage refinancing could attract crime to the State.

“There is no question, we are not immune to this type of activity,” said Plaisance.

Utah fraud lodged an appeal against the tobacco industry attracts Federal Court.

A radical action against fraud tobacco industry is still in Utah’s Federal Court, a judge decided to dismiss the claims against cigarette smokers Utah local distributors.

Salt Lake City to three law firms records of the proposed Class Action Lawsuit in court in February, the names of four former and current smokers as a plaintiff, Utah. It targeted more than a dozen major manufacturers of cigarettes and three regional partners, a seat in Nevada and two in Utah.

The man with multiple identities Indicted in international fraudsters

Matthew Wallace Schachter, also known as Robert Lewis Brown, aka Matthew C. Rollins, was introduced in February at the federal level, in conjunction with an insurance-fraud is that netted more than $ 20 million over the past four years. The indictment, the USA is the district court in California, with brown charges of conspiracy, mail fraud, money laundering and false statements.

If convicted, Brown could be as much as 45 years in Federal Prison: 20 years for e-mail charges of fraud, five years after the conspiracy and false tax returns, and 20 for money laundering offences.

The case is still jointly by the CDI Investigation Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division and the Office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District. At the request of the USA, foreign authorities have frozen bank accounts allegedly with the system. U.S. authorities to take measures to freeze property in Ireland and Barbados.

Brown claims, assumes the identity of Robert Lewis Brown, in the year 1994. The real Robert Lewis Brown, who died on 2 September, 2001, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Brown’s wife, Michale White Crane, aka Shirley Darlene Whitaker, was also adopted living under an identity and was arrested by Canadian authorities. She was deported to the USA and remains a person of interest in the case.

Tri-Continental Exchange Ltd. and Combined Services Ltd was allegedly Off-shore companies operated by Brown in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. TCE and CSL allegedly sold bogus insurance policies throughout the USA and Canada, wrongly, as the representative of the policy were bound by a pool of legitimate, licensed and evaluate companies’ insurance, including Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Globe Indemnity Company. Although this “coverage” Companies are indeed legitimate, or TCE CSL still had any business relationship with them and were not allowed to question the policy with their names. Since January 2000, Brown has given, according to reports and extends fraudulent insurance policies throughout North America about TCE and CSL, more than 20 million in bonuses on the way.

Even in the indictment was Lloyd Thompson Jr., Watsonville, CA. Thompson was allegedly the leader of underwriters for companies to Brown. Thompson is a former insurance broker of California, whose licence expired in 1994.

Operation Scorpion networks nine suspects

Arrested nine authorities auto body owners and employees, are charged with various felony count of insurance fraud referred to as “Operation Scorpion,” a joint investigation of the California Department of Insurance and the San Mateo County District Attorney office. The cases prosecuted by the San Mateo County District Attorney Office and could lead to prison terms ranging up to five years and / or a maximum fine of $ 50000 for each suspected case.

In December 2004, the Undercover investigation body automobile insurance fraud specific body and repair, 13 companies in San Mateo County. The investigators reported that nine of operations envisaged Undercover officers allegedly fraudulent repair estimates, and three of them charged with “customers” for further damage auto. Investigators also said that the store because of additional damage added to the Undercover vehicle. Six suspects arrested are operators of the shop.

Those arrested are: Luis Manuel Amador San Bruno, Robert John San Filippo, San Mateo, owner of A & J Auto Body in South San Francisco; Gabriel Campos Guzman, Newark, Ricki Jay Ingalsbe, San Bruno, owner of a Touch of Class Automotive South San Francisco; Yohannes “John” Mesfine, Palo Alto, owner of Mesfine Auto Body and Paint in Redwood City, Don Steven Reimer, Santa Clara, Jose Rolando Santos, Los Banos, was sentenced for fraud ‘ insurance during the years 1999 and Sanchez is the owner of repairing a car in San Mateo, Cristian Velazquez, South San Francisco, forest and Robert Otto Schmidt, San Carlos, owner of automobile companies in San Carlos.

The estimates were chosen because of alleged accidents, which were both covered and not covered by insurance. Under Cover-L’officier asked the heavy owners estimator combine the insured and uninsured at the request of damage to the insurance company. The estimates were fraudulent 3000 $ - 4000 $ each half estimates “toward the total amount of uninsured damage.


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