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Do you know anything about this topic? Share your expertise with our thousands of visitors each day by submitting your quality, informative 'Fraud' article, and if you become a member we will pay you for your unique and original work (note that all submissions are reviewed by our editors). Recent articles submitted to your independent guide to Fraud 1. Check Fraud: How Do Criminals Get Checks? - By: Michael Russell Check fraud is very popular. Criminals can clear a bank account in one fell swoop by writing fraudulent checks. What you may not know is just how easy and common it is. Fraudulent checks cost retailers and consumers millions of dollars every year. Most people are being very vigilant with their c... 2. Refund Fraud: How'd They Do That? - By: Michael Russell You want your customers to be happy. That's why you went into business. You choose your merchandise carefully so you can sell the best products for the cheapest prices. When customers make purchases they're not happy with, giving them refunds is a way to restore their trust in your store. It's g... Featured ArticleCorporate Fraud When people think about fraud, their minds immediately make up images of shady conmen, extracting money from the elderly and the unsuspecting. A few might conjure images of the sweet talking lad, who swindles money using "schemes" or the new age internet scammer who might use technology to dupe online customers or bankers using various schemes like phishing etc. But the greatest amount of fraud - measured in terms of monetary value - is done by the corporations of the modern world.&n ...
Read full story 3. Check Fraud - Avoid Check Washing Schemes - By: Michael Russell Handing someone a blank check doesn't sound like the smartest thing to do. However, that may be just what you're doing when you pay your bills every month. You're probably saying, “I would never send anyone a blank check. That's absurd!” It's easier than you think to turn your mortgage payment i... 4. Get In Your Customers' Faces To Prevent Fraud - By: Michael Russell In real estate and business, it's all about location, location, location. You could have the best baby clothes in the world, but if you're in an area where there are a lot of bars and crime, what mother is going to risk shopping in your store? The same rings true for your Closed Circuit Television... 5. Keeping Yourself Safe From Identity Theft - By: Michael Russell Identity theft has never been as rampant as what we can see right now in the information technology era. The internet has made it easier for fraudsters to trick people into giving their personal information for their own economic gains. Those who give out their bank account and credit card details a... 6. Identity Theft And How To Protect Against It. - By: Michael Russell Few challenges in life could be as personally disturbing as knowing that someone else is using your good name and identity to evade taxes, fraudulently buy goods and conceal their real identities. Yet this kind of crime happens every day. This article will discuss how identity thieves achieve thei... 7. Is Click Fraud Being Dealt With? - By: Michael Russell Making money online is a challenge in any business. If you are using pay per click advertising, then this effort can be made more difficult by click fraud. Click fraud is where an individual will click on your pay per click link with no intention of buying, or for that matter even looking at the p... 8. Three Types Of Fraud: Most Common, Most Dangerous - By: Michael Russell Fraud. The intentional use of deceit, a trick or some dishonest means to deprive another of their money, property, or a legal right. Fraudster. A person who intentionally deceives a consumer or business to deprive them or their money, property, or a legal right. Fraud is a cr... 9. Protecting Yourself Against Credit Card Fraud - By: Michael Russell Credit cards have become an essential financial tool in many people's lives. They are a convenient way to pay for something in advance, to pay for something in an emergency, as well as to help build credit toward future big ticket items, such as homes, or vehicles. Since credit cards hav... 10. Fraud - On The Internet - By: Michael Russell Fraud is defined as a crime of deception committed with a motive for personal gain. This desired gain for the person committing the fraud is obviously at the expense of the person on whom the fraud is committed. In other words, when a person deliberately deceives someone to damage his or... 11. Click Fraud - Who's Benefiting From It? - By: Michael Russell In a bizarre occurrence, Michael Bradley, a software engineer, attempted to extort $100,000 from Google by claiming that he has a way to generate massive click fraud. The attempt was unprecedented among internet criminals. With no response from Google, Michael conspired with market spamm... 12. Click Fraud - Who's Benefiting From It? - By: Michael Russell In a bizarre occurrence, Michael Bradley, a software engineer, attempted to extort $100,000 from Google by claiming that he has a way to generate massive click fraud. The attempt was unprecedented among internet criminals. With no response from Google, Michael conspired with market spammers to defr... 13. The Balfour Snowballing Fraud - By: Michael Russell One of the greatest frauds in the Victorian era was orchestrated not by a petty thug or a thief but by a member of the parliament in Great Britain. His name was Jabez Balfour and he would bring in an ingenious way to defraud countless investors of their money before the scheme was discovered.&... 14. Corporate Fraud - By: Michael Russell When people think about fraud, their minds immediately make up images of shady conmen, extracting money from the elderly and the unsuspecting. A few might conjure images of the sweet talking lad, who swindles money using "schemes" or the new age internet scammer who might use technology to dup... 15. The Increasing Menace Of Counterfeiting - By: Michael Russell Counterfeit products and materials are knock-off, bootleg, pirated or other illegally produced materials that are produced and sold in violation of the Intellectual Property Rights of others or in a manner that fraudulently represent their quality or origin. Under English Common Law, counterfe... 16. Fraud On The Internet - By: Michael Russell Fraud is a very big problem in our society at this time. A specific area where fraud seems to be rampant is on the internet. There are several explanations for this and countless ways in which people become victims of fraud and are cheated out of large amounts of money. One particu... 17. Fraud In The Automotive Sector - By: Michael Russell Fraud in the Automotive Insurance sector is becoming a serious problem for insurers with the increase of vehicles in use. Premiums are constantly rising, reflecting the costs of many factors of which fraudulent claims are one of the more serious. Fraud investigation and elimination constitute a co... 18. Is Modern Science A Fraud? - By: Michael Russell A lot of people believe in horoscopes, fortune telling, the tarot and the I Ching. The underlying paradigm of all these systems is that there exists an inherent connectedness of things, that all events are somehow related, that there is a cause and an effect. As in astrology, which is ca... 19. Fraud, What Is It? - By: Michael Russell We hear so much about fraud these days but do we really know what it is? We hear that someone set up an investment program and pocketed all the money and defrauded the hopeful investors. We hear that someone was a victim of Identity Theft. We hear about a corporation going bankrupt... 20. Multilevel Marketing Scams - Protect Yourself - By: Michael Russell Lately, you may have noticed friends and well-meaning neighbors trying to sell you herbal extracts, vitamin pills, natural remedies, weight loss meals and other quite expensive health-related products. Right off the bat, you know they are into multilevel marketing. Millions of people around the wo... 21. The Art Of Faking Art - By: Michael Russell It would seem that all art is not truth. Three fake Mona Lisas have been made and sold. The Tate Gallery in London discovered that their archives were tampered with and false documents inserted to "prove" fake works. Just recently, Italian police uncovered more than ten million dol... 22. Fraud - The Drake Inheritance Scam - By: Michael Russell Hartzell's mother had already invested $6000 in the scam and the opportunity sounded like just what Oscar needed to turn his fortunes around. He was right about that much, anyway. Hartzell was about to be swindled by a scam that he would eventually take over from the scammers themselves,... 23. Fraud - Beware Home Repair Schemes - By: Michael Russell There are lots of honest, hard-working, quality-conscious contractors out there. But mixed in with them are the unscrupulous guys - either contractors who don't care how the job turns out as long as they collect your money, or the outright con artists who use the construction game as another w... 24. Fraud - Are You A Mark Waiting To Be Made? - By: Michael Russell Contrary to what you may believe, not all scam victims are stupid or gullible, though it helps. Problem is, all of us, from you to me to Einstein to Carl Sagan, can be stupid or gullible at times. All of us are potential victims. As long as there's a lottery, we will believe in get... 25. Online Romance Scams: Protecting Yourself - By: Michael Russell If it's too good to be true, it usually is. While the internet has provided a huge venue for people to meet potential mates around the world, it does have its share of scammers out to fool the innocent and unwary. Despite many warnings, hundreds of lonely and well-meaning online daters s... Please feel free to submit your quality, informative article for our readers. |
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