free+from+fraud
11E-mail fraud — Fraud has existed perhaps as long or longer than money. Any new sociological change can engender new forms of fraud, or other crime. Almost as soon as e mail became widely used, it began to be used to defraud people via E mail fraud. E mail fraud …
12Advance-fee fraud — African sting An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.[1] Among the variations on this type of scam are the Nigerian Letter (also… …
13Toll-free telephone number — A toll free, Freecall, Freephone, or 800 number is a special telephone number, in that the called party is charged the cost of the calls by the telephone carrier, instead of the calling party. The cost of the call to the called party is usually… …
14Missing trader fraud — (also called Missing Trader Intra Community, MTIC, or carousel fraud) is the theft of Value Added Tax (VAT) from a government by organised crime gangs who exploit the way VAT is treated within multi jurisdictional trading where the movement of… …
15Phone fraud — Whether in the form of the consumer attempting to defraud the telephone company, the telephone company attempting to defraud the consumer, or a third party attempting to defraud either of them, fraud has been a part of the telephone system almost …
16KPMG tax shelter fraud — The KPMG tax shelter fraud scandal involves allegedly illegal U.S. tax shelters by KPMG that were exposed beginning in 2003. In early 2005, the United States member firm of KPMG International, KPMG LLP, was accused by the United States Department …
17Click fraud — 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… …
18Securities fraud — Securities fraud, also known as stock fraud and investment fraud, is a practice in which investors make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of false information, frequently resulting in losses, in violation of the securities laws. [… …
19Affinity fraud — includes investment frauds that prey upon members of identifiable groups, such as religious or ethnic communities, the elderly, or professional groups. The fraudsters who promote affinity scams frequently are or pretend to be members of the group …
20The National Council Against Health Fraud — is a 501(c)(3) non profit,[1] US based organization registered in California,[2] that describes itself as a private nonprofit, voluntary health agency that focuses upon health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems. [3] The …
