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Should we do strategic planning for our supply chain?
in Supplychainer, on July 14, 2009
...o dealers. The issue is how they go about it. For example, the outsourcing decisions are especially vulnerable to the classic myopia of focusing on comparative labor costs. A proper analysis would loo...
Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database
in Wangtam, on July 10, 2009
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Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
... you own a home in Los Angeles, watch out for the scammers. Your city leads the nation in mortgage fraud , according to the FBI's annual mortgage fraud review.
The FBI's Los Angeles field of...
Beware loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 7, 2009
If you want to read a chilling story, try this one published yesterday by the Los Angeles Times. It details the devastating effects that loan-modification scammers can have on their victims.
The Times' story details the plight of a Hesperia, Calif., homeowner who thought she was working with ...
Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 1)
in Supplychainer, on June 30, 2009
...e continues with mentioning the fact that because of such uncertainty, many companies have ended up vulnerable and some of them going through bankruptcy or consolidation (acquisition by others). From ...
Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
... with it. "There may not be anyone who can improve on the scale and ingenuity of Madoff's fraud. However, it is a recurring theme in human nature that someone in the next decades will try to...
Stimulus packages create corruption opportunities
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
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The global stimulus packages are likely to provide massive opportunities for fraud, according to a report from risk consultancy Kroll . According to the report, corruption could swipe about $500 ...
Beware of loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 21, 2009
As the number of housing foreclosures across the nation continue to rise, something else is on the upswing, too: loan-modification scams.
The scammers target homeowners who have fallen behind in their mortgage payments or those who are facing foreclosure. They promise to modify these homeowners'...
NFL Week 6
in End Zone Buzz, on June 19, 2009
...nd promised to appear in Texas to face burglary and like 7 counts of drug related charges involving fraud and delivery.
Ouch!
So I wonder... as a disgruntled fan, can I get a refund out of some of...
Nokia E72 unveiled - pics and video
in Wangtam, on June 16, 2009
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Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
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Bernard Madoff, who has pleaded guilty to 11 charges of fraud, money laudnering, perjury and theft, faces up to 150 years in jail. And his victims want exactly that! The New York Times reports ...
Swine flu and crime
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
... the Australian Crime Commission that organized crime syndicates could cash in on the pandemic with fraud, robbery and a black market in bootleg medicine. The Commission warned: "Criminal groups ...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
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Mozilo was charged by securities regulators earlier this week with insider trading and regulatory fraud. You can read all about Mozilo's downfall in this Reuters story .
Mozilo is a cautionary...
Conrad Black's landmark case
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
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Conrad Black's appeal against his fraud conviction will have massive implications on the system, regardless of what the decision is. Black, as we know, was convicted two year ago of a a $6.1-m...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...d others? Did PwC leadership - US, global, and Indian- enable and perhaps promote complicity in the fraud called 'India's Enron' for the sake of their consulting business strategy? Did Sat...
Peak oil and lifestyles
in Sox First, on May 22, 2009
...of choices, from what car we drive to where we choose to go for vacation to which jobs will be more vulnerable. If Rubin is right, the world is likely to get a lot smaller and constrained....
How to introduce a carbon tax
in Sox First, on May 20, 2009
...normally requires damming rivers and those dams and reservoirs might endanger wildlife and might be vulnerable to catastrophic failure, unleashing devastating floods on those downstream. Indeed, this ...
Military joins climate change battle
in Sox First, on May 19, 2009
...ty grid makes our domestic military installations, and their critical
infrastructure, unnecessarily vulnerable to incident, whether deliberate or accidental. "The market for fossil fuels will be...
Climate change and health
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
...de (122 degrees Fahrenheit). "This warming is expected to have serious health implications for vulnerable groups such as elderly people with cardiovascular conditions," the report says. The...
Do boycotts work?
in Sox First, on May 12, 2009
...anies with strong reputations are likely to resist whereas those with troubled reputations are more vulnerable. There is a simple lesson for companies: maintain and build your reputation. And for act...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
... they would not apply to technology would be disingenous. If anything, the tech sector is even more vulnerable to the phenomena than the manufacturing and service sectors.
The choice for American wor...
GAO slams SEC
in Sox First, on May 9, 2009
...ies and Exchange Commissions stuffed up big time with Bernard Madoff, letting him get away with his fraud for some time. It failed to do its job and protect investors. Now a Government Accountabilit...
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in Wangtam, on May 4, 2009
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Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...ard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings are being sued for negligence fraud and deceit and as Frank Partnoy, a professor at the San Diego School of Law and a former deriv...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
... accountability for the bailout funds being put up by US taxpayers. Clearly, the system is open to fraud and now we have the Los Angeles Times telling us of criminal probes into possible securities...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 10, 2009
...nce, and people start spending again. But William Black , Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention warns that this amounts to a cover up. In an interview with Bill Moyers , Black sa...
ATM Skimmers are High Tech Robbery
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 10, 2009
© *saxon*
I know about ATM skimmers, and in general I know they are a bad thing. What I didn't know is that their use across the globe and throughout the US is dramatically on the rise. If you aren't familiar with ATM skimmers, they are a ATM/credit card reader that fit over the card ...
Supermarket looting: a sign of things to come
in Sox First, on March 20, 2009
...itain that recession related robberies are on the rise and other reports of a massive increase in fraud. With no sign of recovery, people are getting desperate. It's a trend that will continue ...
Maddoff's accountant: bring on the rest
in Sox First, on March 19, 2009
... Exchange Commission charging Bernard Madoff's accountant David G. Friehling, with securities fraud, aiding and abetting investment adviser fraud, and four counts of filing false audit reports r...
Mortgage fraud and AIG
in Sox First, on March 17, 2009
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Mortgage fraud is on the rise, up 26% , and it's a serious problem. Fewer loans are being processed but there's more fraud, suggesting there is a real sickness in the system. It means peo...
Madoff to jail, SEC in the dog house
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
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So Bernard Madoff is now in jail after pleading guilty to 11 charges including securities fraud. And he has apologised to the investors he scammed, claiming he was "painfully aware" th...
Golf Rejoices as Woods Returns
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 26, 2009
...andedly propels the game of professional golf forward has returned.
And that one point exposes the vulnerable under-belly in the game today. Professional golf needs Tiger Woods and it needs him badly...
Tour Gets Burned Again
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 24, 2009
...s burst - an unpleasant characteristic often manifests, according to Socionomics: rampant cheating, fraud and financial exploitation.
Bernie Madoff is one human face we can put to that characterist...
Dubai bailout
in Sox First, on February 23, 2009
...nt support of companies in Dubai. As reported here , Moody's said Dubai was "particularly vulnerable" because its most important sectors - real estate, tourism, trade and financial serv...
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...
The banking crisis and Eastern Europe
in Sox First, on February 18, 2009
... fall . The Financial Times reports that Moody's says Eastern Europe is looking increasingly vulnerable. According to the FT, Moody's warns of "continuous downward pressure on east Eur...
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...ng power and global warming are converging on the interplay of oil and US currency flows. The US is vulnerable to peak oil, and that will weaken the US dollar even further. Phillips, a former senior ...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 16, 2009
...es and Exchange Commission had looked the other way and allowed Bernard Madoff to get away with his fraud. Now, the New York Post reports that bankers thought Madoff was a shyster but kept shtum. &...
Climate change and fires
in Sox First, on February 9, 2009
...fying the south-east region of Australia, southern California and southern France as the three most vulnerable areas in the world to bushfire. Climate change is expected to increase the number of extr...
What are different forms of supply chain fraud?
in Supplychainer, on January 31, 2009
... I read a blog post in Supply Chain Network on supply chain fraud (Read it here ) which was mentioning that in every step of the value chain, there are opportunities for fraud and these can have d...
Internetbetrug bei Hotelbuchungen floriert
in kinkaa blog - das Blog zur Reisesuchmaschine, on January 30, 2009
Bin über folgende News von pressetext. deutschland gestolpert und frage mich gerade, ob es sich wohl um ein reines US Phänomen handelt. Hierzulande habe ich bis jetzt noch nicht von solchen Fällen speziell im Hotelbereich gehört.
Also Obacht da draussen, vor falschen Hotelseiten. Wir werden mit Sich...
Ponzi schemes proliferate
in Sox First, on January 28, 2009
...nevitable more Ponzi schemes would come to light. For a good reason too. With every bubble there is fraud. Look behind every bubble and you'll find the cousins of fraud, greed and unchecked enthus...
Mayor Of Gulfport Mississippi Charged With Committing "Katrina" Fraud
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 28, 2009
...Brent Warr, the mayor of Gulfport Mississippi and his wife, Laura Jean Warr, have been charged with fraud in connection with a liability insurance claim they filed.
The couple also defrauded FEMA, an...
Financial crisis to drive fraud claims
in Sox First, on January 22, 2009
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The financial meltdown will result in more fraud claims and legal disputes, according to the latest report from risk management consultants Kroll . The alarming part about this report is the war...
Lessons from Siemens
in Sox First, on January 19, 2009
Siemens is upbeat about its chances of getting its insurers to pay a big chunk of the $1.3 billion it paid to settle corruption probes in the United States and Germany. And that's a worry because it leaves you wondering whether the company has learned any lessons from the debacle. Law...
The Effect of Satyam's Revelation
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on January 10, 2009
...stantial pressure to show results, particularly as the world economy deteriorated .
Whether the fraudulent statements by Satyam or the Indian governments late-but-strong reaction to it will affect...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...
The Madoff lawsuits roll in
in Sox First, on December 24, 2008
It had to happen. Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme is turning into a lawyers' picnic with the lawsuits rolling in. First, we have reports that a New York woman, Phyllis Molchatsky, is suing the Securities and Exchange Commission after losing $2 million investing with Mado...
The Madoff scandal: now for the auditors
in Sox First, on December 23, 2008
...et Journal. He 'responded evasively,' the SEC memo said. "Mr. Madoff was charged with fraud after authorities say he told his sons that the investment-management business was a 'gian...
Madoff fallout continues to spread
in Sox First, on December 22, 2008
... that the FBI is now diverting agents from its counter-terrorism divisions to focus on Madoff's fraud schemes. What's clear now is that you can't have a fraud of that size without some ass...
SEC and Madoff: shutting the stable gate after the horse has bolted
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
...n Christopher Cox announcing an in-house investigation into why it did not detect the $50 billion fraud case sooner. Cox has admitted has the SEC screwed up badly. "The Commission has learned ...
Will there be more Madoffs?
in Sox First, on December 16, 2008
...s Bernard Madoff a sign of things to come? Will there be more like him? Is Madoff's $50 billion fraud a sign of things to come? These are valid questions because Madoff was the product of a dysfu...
More law suits for big tobacco
in Sox First, on December 16, 2008
... the way they promote light and low tar brands. Basically, the court has allowed smokers to sue for fraud. It is, as the New York Times points out, a fraught issue because fraud claims are not suite...
How Madoff played the SEC for suckers
in Sox First, on December 15, 2008
Over the weekend, I did a blog entry condemning the Securities and Exchange Commission for ignoring the warnings it was receiving about swindler Bernard Madoff. Now Bloomberg reports that the SEC never even bothered to inspect his investment advisory business. This was despite the fact that...
Madoff and SEC neglect
in Sox First, on December 13, 2008
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The extraordinary $50 billion fraud and Ponzi scheme that Wall Street legend Bernard Madoff is accused of is bad enough. But what is more remarkable are the questions about federal regulators. W...
RFID ePass: Entire boarding ritual at airport will now be a breeze
in The RFID Weblog, on December 2, 2008
...ag identifier and number sequence and does not include any kind of personal information. Chances of fraud are negligible as customer would have to be present self during the entire process.This entire...
How to solve the problem of competing with private label products?
in Supplychainer, on November 29, 2008
... few industries which re not affected by economic downturn; an especially CPG companies have a more vulnerable position here.
I read in an story by Business Week that, now many people prefer to eat ...
Grippies and Food Allergies
in Allergies, on November 29, 2008
...ly? I think I'll pass. So the hands are protected. And granted, the hands are probably the most vulnerable body. But as you can see from the picture, pretty much the rest of the body may come into...
Who's next in the bail-out bonanza?
in Sox First, on November 28, 2008
...otes , it's become a case of viral bail-out mania. "The entire world banking system is now vulnerable to huge debt exposures, with Bank of America and Wells Fargo reportedly joining the b...
Auditors can't beat fraud
in Sox First, on November 25, 2008
...g entry suggesting that it might be easy to pull the wool over auditors' eyes when it comes to fraud.
Now a piece in CIO Today, Investigations or Audits: Fraud vs. Innocent Mistakes reaffirms...
Cheap oil and global risk
in Sox First, on November 21, 2008
...ore pressure on the rouble and an extremely difficult first quarter next year.' Russia was more vulnerable than other countries because it was still an oil state, and had failed to diversify its e...
G20 undermines accounting independence
in Sox First, on November 18, 2008
...by University of Dayton accounting professor Robert Larson. The paper makes the point that IASB is vulnerable because it is not getting enough donations, particularly from corporations. Any instituti...
Being Needy
in The Dating Weblog, on November 17, 2008
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Are you needy when it comes to dating?
I think there are times when we're more vulnerable in relationships, but what I'm talking about here is true neediness.
Like: You pan...
Will credit cards be the next shoe to drop?
in Sox First, on October 29, 2008
...a Nishikawa has told the media that outfits like Bank of America and Citigroup are particularly vulnerable because they relied more heavily on money made from credit cards. True, the amount of exp...
Black blogs from cell
in Sox First, on October 24, 2008
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Jailed for more than six years for Fraud, Conrad Black is "working", even if it's for gratis, for Tina Brown's web venture The Daily Beast . The disgraced businessman has taken...
EC2 comes out of beta
in The CIO Weblog, on October 23, 2008
...vice, but it's also a nicely timed move to gain inroads with enterprise IT during an especially vulnerable moment. With the economy in a shambles, cuts are on the horizon... and although the quali...
Major Cybercrime Site Shut Down
in I got Spam?!, on October 18, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5697450 The site, called DarkMarket, was kept secret and access was granted by invitation only. Its forum allowed cyberthieves to buy and sell stolen banking details and credit card numbers obtained via phishing scams and website hacks. It also served as a ...
ICI Offers Alternative to Pickens Plan
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 17, 2008
...ne training, resulting, the company says, in self-sustaining financial communities which are not as vulnerable to global financial collapse.
In September ICI announced an alternative to the Pickens P...
Single Family Offices Investing in Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 16, 2008
...y" as a key concern. Other concerns sited include lock-up periods (60%), style drift (55%) and fraud (37%)
More at; Survey Shows Nearly 75% of Single Family Offices Invest in Hedge Funds, With ...
Georgia Tech: Mobile Phones Highly Vulnerable to Hackers
in The Wireless Weblog, on October 15, 2008
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Georgia Tech researchers have warned in a new report that mobile phones are extremely vulnerable to hackers.
"Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology believe mobile p...
