Articles Tagged with ''fraud trends''

A former executive at an airplane repair company with government contracts pleaded guilty to recklessly endangering the safety of aircraft, according to the Justice Department.

Some security experts think there could still be some problems today on election day -- some lost or misattributed votes could go completely undetected.

Forty-four percent of card users in Mexico report credit card fraud, while 42 percent of U.S. consumers report the same.

Only 47 percent of Canadian firms reported difficulties with fraud, theft and corruption this year, compared with 77 percent of companies in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Massachusetts governor contends that the New England Compounding Center responsible for the tainted steroid misled state officials and was operating outside of the bounds of its pharmacy license.

Jessica Harper, 50, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail after submitting false invoices for more than 2.4 million pounds from 2007 to 2011. 

Cyber criminals are using a variety of methods to steal money from victims' bank accounts in illegal wire transfers, sometimes even raising the limit of a transfer to get more money. 

Lack of protection of chip and PIN cards and card skimming are raising losses.

The Internal Revenue Service has been looking the other way instead of rooting out fraud when people apply for taxpayer identification numbers, Treasury Department investigators said.

An elaborate scheme to defraud Comcast of more than $2.4 million has been uncovered, and 22 are charged in connection with the conspiracy.