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Madoff: contender for SEC chairman
in Sox First, on September 3, 2009
...s SEC report into the regulator's failure to stop Madoff and why it turned a blind eye to the frauds he was perpetrating. According to the report, SEC examiners found Madoff to be totally charm...
GE cooks the books
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
...;If she wants to do something substantive, she needs to go after the managers who commit accounting frauds and the directors who approve their tomfoolery. If she really wants to get their attention, a...
RFID in every cell phone by 2010?
in The RFID Weblog, on June 25, 2009
...s doubling as a concert ticket or credit card or acting as keys of your car or house.
Credit card frauds could also be taken care of as location of mobile phone user and IP mapping could be used to f...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...agged before the courts. Barofsky says you don't need widespread corruption for these sorts of frauds to emerge. "You only need a few corrupt managers whose compensation may be tied to the p...
The Stanford-Madoff connection
in Sox First, on February 22, 2009
..., a clear and worrying pattern is emerging. Allen Stanford and Bernard Madoff are the first two big frauds that have come out of this meltdown and they won't be the last. Furthermore, both cases r...
Madoff madness
in Sox First, on February 4, 2009
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Much has been said about the Securities and Exchange Commission's incompetence over fraudster Bernard Madoff and why it ignored all the red flags. Now whistleblower Harry Markopoulos, who warn...
18 years jail for tax shelter guru
in Sox First, on October 6, 2008
...f dubious tax shelters has just been sentenced to 223 months in the slammer. Still, with some of frauds in the mortgage industry created by people who made their fortunes, and got away with it bein...
Boxing Cox
in Sox First, on September 23, 2008
...the short sellers who helped expose the excesses at Lehman's, including the probable accounting frauds by that enterprise. He always chooses to support his buddies in corporate America and on Wall...
Does Sarbanes-Oxley make fraud worse?
in Sox First, on July 23, 2008
...ported intentions of Sarbanes-Oxley to increase focus on fraud controls, the evidence suggests that frauds are much more likely to be detected by a tip than by audits. The implication being that Sarbo...
The audit cartel
in Sox First, on June 4, 2008
...n us, or is likely to give us better audits, company accounts, corporate governance or freedom from frauds and fiddles. Without effective independent regulation, public accountability and demanding li...
Supremes screw investors
in Sox First, on January 23, 2008
The fallout from the the US Supreme Court's long-awaited decision in StoneRidge Investment Partners v Scientific Atlanta last week continues. The battle of StoneRidge was fought over a case brought by investors in Charter Communications, a cable-television firm. They had sued two companies...
Buffett bonding
in Sox First, on January 3, 2008
Interesting questions raised from The Wall Street Journal's scoop last week that Warren Buffett plans to make a buck out of the turmoil in the financial markets by establishing a bond insurance firm with the goal of giving local governments a cheaper borrowing option. The business will guar...
Fraud on the rise
in Sox First, on October 20, 2007
... is that management's attempts to detect fraud are not that impressive. In 2007, 41 per cent of frauds were detected by chance, up seven percentage points in the past two years. The report also s...
Writers Converge on Aurora, IL
in Bizinformer, on October 3, 2007
I'm all packed.
I started packing a couple weeks ago. That's just how excited I am. I leave in the morning for an information packed weekend at the 5th Annual Midwest Literary Festival
Each Midwest Literary Festival begins with a Friday Writer's Workshop open to those that want ...
Financial statement fraud gangs
in Sox First, on October 2, 2007
...st, I have talked about delinquent communities here and here . I have argued that most corporate frauds are the work of delinquent communities, where you get a whole gang of people in on the act, a...
SOX and fraud
in Sox First, on July 24, 2007
...imply fabricating a revenue generating transaction. Revenue recognition makes up 41 per cent of all frauds. Most companies (82 per cent) had from one to five fraud schemes, but over 20 had 10 or more...
Securities fraud scamsters
in Sox First, on June 18, 2007
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We know all about high-level perpetrators of of securities frauds. Plenty of attention has been placed on the Ken Lays of this world. But little attention has been given to the scam-meisters who ...
Choosing an Online Business for Newbies: Be Wary of Money
in Home Based Business, on May 31, 2007
... you to shed off money first?
home based businesses are sometimes blamed for the widespread frauds in the Internet. Among the popular home based businesses online, multi-level marketing had be...
A teaspoon of sugar could be illegal soon
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 26, 2007
...rong way to enforce corporate social responsibility. Granted the FDA wants to protect us from those frauds - but they shouldn't take down the good guys too! There are better ways, such as institut...
Does the punishment fit the crime? Securities fraud and home invasion
in Sox First, on May 19, 2007
...helped inflate WorldCom's profits by billions of dollars. The second presided over the multiple frauds that caused the collapse of Enron, the largest corporate bankruptcy in history. They helped s...
Analysts and accounting fraud
in Sox First, on May 15, 2007
...eal flash. Their paper, Do analysts accept accounting fraud? found that analysts respond to some frauds and not others. And they are still fooled by fictitious accounts. They analysed analysts'...
PPC Advertising: How To Start
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 1, 2007
...r will help you alleviate your opportunities.
Finally, make sure that you don't fall for click frauds....
PPC Marketing vs. SEO
in The Search Engine Weblog, on March 17, 2007
...ition, having top search engine rankings means more web traffic.
Increasing click costs and click frauds made several PPC marketers shift to using search engine optimization to replace pay per click...
Invalid Clicks: Numbers Rise
in The Search Engine Weblog, on March 2, 2007
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How many click frauds are detected proactively vs. reactively? The numbers are rising... Google says invalid click is 0.02% of clicks.
Invalid clicks (a term used by Google) mean all the clicks y...
What Major Search Engines Do To Combat Click Fraud
in The Search Engine Weblog, on February 25, 2007
" Click fraud ," as wikipedia defines it, is a type of internet crime that occurs in pay per click online advertising when a person, automated script, or computer program imitates a legitimate user of a web browser clicking on an ad, for the purpose of generating a charge per click wit...
What is it that search engines LOVE/HATE?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on February 24, 2007
...nothing more
3. manipulation of optimized web pages with unrelated content
4. broken links
5. click frauds and other black hat SEO techniques
Basically, the hate list is composed of trickeries that a...
SOX no good for whistleblowers
in Sox First, on February 17, 2007
...her interesting findings in the study. Prior to Enron, auditors accounted for just 9.6 per cent of frauds detected. Post-Enron, it went up to 16.9 per cent. But the reason for the increase, the autho...
Keep It Real When Selling
in The Social Networking Weblog, on February 12, 2007
...ht and how much they love it.
This is the wrong way. Why? Because they are often discovered to be frauds. People online are good at researching who people are and what their background it. They find...
Sony Ericsson Multimedia Cradle
in The Gadgets Weblog, on February 1, 2007
... computer/multimedia cradle.
I've reported on several products that I've discovered to be frauds later on. I have no idea where this drawing came from, but let us hope that it is not fake. L...
Booms, busts, fraud and Sarbanes-Oxley
in Sox First, on January 31, 2007
...ture of fraud and the implications for public policy and legislation. The paper, Booms, busts and frauds , reveals that fraud is most likely to occur in relatively good times, that the link between ...
SOX wars: Is the SOX fix a Band-Aid solution?
in Sox First, on December 27, 2006
... full of risk control memoranda will not prevent cyclical recurrence of booms with their attendant frauds, and subsequent busts with their attendant scandals. "Such devices can, however, certai...
SPIT: Meet the new form of spam
in I got Spam?!, on December 25, 2006
...oks complete with names and addresses."
Armed with such info, evil doers could easily perform frauds, DoS attacks and also generate new spam bots.
But, you haven't yet heard of the worst th...
British Unions: No to Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on December 21, 2006
...to bringing back the outsourced function. Some of these security issues mentioned includes identity frauds and security breaches....
How to beat identity fraud
in Sox First, on November 29, 2006
...tual amount being ripped off through identity fraud is getting bigger. Which might tell us that the fraudsters are getting more sophisticated. But the most disturbing part about the study is that mos...
Click fraud! What is it, by the way?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 22, 2006
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Some call it click frauds. To some, it's invalid clicks. Nonetheless, only a number dared to question why these clicks happen and how they happen. Are there any dirty secrets behind?
Some cr...
Mac Hack Part IV: Ellch's ToorCon Rant
in The Wireless Weblog, on October 1, 2006
...in the Mac community see the cancellation of Saturday's talk as proof that Maynor and Ellch are frauds, some at ToorCon suggest the danger of Wi-Fi driver flaws might be bigger than previously tho...
RFID Tickets Find Place in Chinese Railway System
in The RFID Weblog, on September 5, 2006
...ditional barcode tickets to contactless only fare collection solution . In order to control ticket frauds and at the same time improve passenger convenience it is making use of Confidex' contactl...
SEC and The Jargon Maze
in Sox First, on May 18, 2006
...on of one's brain.'' If he were alive today, Orwell would agree that of all linguistic frauds, the lexicon of business is the worst. That's the one that does the most damage, not only...
Retirement Realities
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on January 20, 2006
...oned pensions and social security.
The checks were as good as gold. Nobody worried about accounting frauds. Nobody was expected to manage an elegantly diversified portfolio. The old Rest of Your Life ...
Money for auditors
in Sox First, on January 17, 2006
...for a more detailed breakdown. On one hand, it means companies are taking audit more seriously. But frauds still occur. Which raises the question of whether the cost is worth it and whether it's ...
Beancounters and civilisation
in Sox First, on December 20, 2005
... that fraud is as old as accounting itself. Which means no regulatory system will ever stop it. The frauds will always be with us.
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Detecting fraud: a matter of luck
in Sox First, on December 1, 2005
... and disclosure requirements, better computer systems and greater awareness post- Enron , most frauds (34 percent) are detected by chance through for example tip-offs. It's a worry that it ha...