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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a statement last year saying that its Internet Crime Complaint Center had received over 2,000 complaints from people who received the unpaid toll ...
Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988. [1] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
Nearly 20,000 scam calls have been made to unsuspecting Texans over the past month alone, some aggressively demanding payment. Hundreds of thousands of robocall scams target Texas student loan ...
An anonymous OPM staffer told the Musk Watch newsletter on Feb. 3 that the server was "a piece of commercial hardware they believed was not obtained through the proper federal procurement process."
"Service of process in New York City: A proposed end to unregulated criminality". Colum. L. Rev. 72 (5): 847– 872. doi:10.2307/1121426. JSTOR 1121426. Press Release: "The New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo Announces Guilty Plea Of Process Server Company Owner Who Denied Thousands Of New Yorkers Their Day In Court". January 15, 2010
Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...
An abuse of process is the unjustified or unreasonable use of legal proceedings or process to further a cause of action by an applicant or plaintiff in an action. It is a claim made by the respondent or defendant that the other party is misusing or perverting regularly issued court process (civil or criminal) not justified by the underlying legal action.
Per a recent report by the Better Business Bureau, 44% of Americans have been approached with a government impostor scam, and 77% of people surveyed were familiar with the practice.