Articles on Fraud
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A suit of highly paid professional services seem to have failed investors in the unfolding Steinhoff corporate scandal.
Digital innovations are making it easier to give to charity and for donors to become informed before they support nonprofits.
Offering money as a form of atonement is easier for the movie mogul than finding someone who will accept it.
Victims of ATM fraud in Nigeria are often shocked to find out that their defrauders are close family friends or relatives.
Politicians need to get serious about the steady drip of scandals.
From student loans to Title IX, Betsy DeVos has had a busy six months in office. But despite numerous reversals of Obama-era guidelines, little has come in the way of tangible policy.
The banks are dealing with rising rates of online credit card fraud, but they can’t fix it on their own.
Republicans are hoping to eliminate or at least defang the only federal agency tasked solely with protecting consumers from financial abuses. What would we miss if they succeed?
Artworks can look very different if you view them with more than the unaided eye, and that can help you spot the fake from the genuine.
Enron stands as one of the most infamous scandals in business history. With a growing charter school sector and lax regulation, the same kind of corruption and fraud is rearing its ugly head.
Donors feel doubly let down when a charity they have supported falls short of the high standards of conduct expected of them.
As the New York Stock Exchange marks 200 years since its official formation, investors are wondering whether the surging stock market is a ‘Trump bump’ or more like a lemon.
New research suggests the road to bribery is more of a steep cliff than a slippery slope.
What are fraudsters really like? Are they all psychopaths? To fight fraud we need an accurate picture of who commits these offences.
Members of House Standing Committee on Economics should be asking the directors of Australia’s Big Four banks (not the CEOs) different questions, if they really want the right answers.
Is the risk of a criminal conviction enough to deter scientists from publishing bogus research findings?
South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority charged the country’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan and two of his former colleagues at the tax authority, Ivan Pillay and Oupa Magashule, with fraud last…
The thousands of Wells Fargo low-wage employees who defrauded customers likely knew how it felt to face unfair overdraft fees or a deteriorating credit rating. So why did they do it?
One simple measure could go a long way to cracking down on illegal activity that is now widespread in Australia.
Proposed laws will put corporate executives in the firing line when the law is broken on their watch.



















