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Securities fraud, also known as stock fraud and investment fraud, is a deceptive practice in the stock or commodities markets that induces investors to make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of false information.
In August 2008, the CFTC set up a special task force to deal with growing foreign exchange fraud. [3] In January 2010, the CFTC proposed new rules limiting leverage to 10 to 1, based on "a number of improper practices" in the retail foreign exchange market, "among them solicitation fraud, a lack of transparency in the pricing and execution of transactions, unresponsiveness to customer ...
The biggest money market scam ever committed in India, amounting to approximately ₹ 5,000 crores. The main perpetrator of the scam was a stock and money market broker Harshad Mehta. It was a systematic stock scam using fake bank receipts and stamp paper that caused the Indian stock market to crash. The scam exposed the inherent loopholes of ...
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
Charles Ponzi, the namesake of the scheme, in 1920. A Ponzi scheme (/ ˈ p ɒ n z i /, Italian:) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. [1]
Would you fall for a scam? Scams are everywhere—suspicious emails, too-good-to-be-true deals, or “long-lost relatives” suddenly leaving you millions. How good are you at spotting the red flags?
The NSE co-location scam relates to the market manipulation at the National Stock Exchange of India, India's leading stock exchange.Allegedly select players obtained market price information ahead of the rest of the market, enabling them to front run the rest of the market, [1] [2] possibly breaching the NSE's purpose of demutualisation exchange governance and its robust transparency-based ...
Imagine rolling into an airport, trudging your way through security and navigating a labyrinth of gift shops before finding your gate, boarding your flight and sinking into your assigned seat.