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  • Fraud - What Kinds Do We Have At Work?

     According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ "Report To The Nation On Occupational Fraud And Abuse" (Report), “participants in the study estimate U.S. organizations lose 5% of their annual revenues to fraud.More

  • Fraud - Beware Of Ponzi Schemes

     Charles Ponzi defrauded over forty thousand investors of more than fifteen million dollars in Boston in the 1920’s selling them investments in postal reply coupons. His pitch was a high return in a safe investment. Although Ponzi’s idea of paying off early investors with subsequent investors’ money was not new, the idea was named after Ponzi.More

  • The Risks Of Investing In Leveraged Real Estate

     Investors have been using leverage to buy real estate for years. For most of us our home is our first leveraged investment in real estate. One of the world’s largest leveraged real estate investors is Donald Trump, who parlayed his father’s modest apartment holdings into one of today’s most well known real estate portfolios.More

  • Fraud-Pump And Dump Schemes Are Still Around

     Pump and dump schemes have cost investors hundreds of millions of dollars in the past few years. The World English Dictionary defines them as, “involving unscrupulous stock market manipulation: describes a fraudulent scheme in which unscrupulous stockbrokers, analysts, or stockholders highly recommend their own stocks in order to drive up the price before selling for a quick profit (slang).” Although the definition describes a textbook scheme, it does not describe how this fraud is operating in the investment market today.More

  • Fraud-High Yield And Low Risk Are A Warning Sign

     High yield and low risk are two attributes of an investment that investors want. Time-tested investment wisdom has told us the higher the risk, the higher the yield and the lower the risk, the lower the yield. Are they really available?More

  • Fraud-Recovering Investor Funds Hidden Offshore

     In many investor frauds, stolen money is hidden offshore. Although fraudsters do not think they will be caught, they are cautious enough to hide their stolen money. In some frauds they invest the stolen money in real estate or other investments.More

  • Fraud - Will Hedge Funds Produce The Next Really Big One?

     For thousands of years investment advisors have been asking investors to give them money so they could invest it for them. Even after Charles Ponzi in the 1920’s, investors have continued to give investment advisors money to invest. The mutual fund industry has been the largest vehicle, but is highly regulated and has produced few frauds.More

  • Fraud - What's New At The SEC

     The Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing to litigate against fraud and other violations of the US securities laws. During the first nine months of 2006 they announced in Litigation Releases the opening of one hundred thirty-one new cases. Almost half of the cases were of the three following types: accounting fraud, insider trading and PONZI schemes.More

  • Fraud-Money Laundering

     Money laundering is a fraud which is part of what we now call the “underground economy” or “cash economy.” ”Wikipedia defines money laundering as: “the metaphorical "cleaning of money" with regards to appearances in law, is the practice of engaging in specific financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and/or destination of money and is a main operation of underground economy.” This fraud robs each of us who try to uphold the law.More

  • Fraud-Did Ken Lay Really Die?

     The Associated Press reported that Ken Lay died of a heart attack this morning in Aspen, Colorado. Mr. Lay, the former chairman of Enron Corporation, had been convicted of several crimes in one of the largest public company frauds in history.More