Flashcards: Fraud

The Madoff investment scandal was a major case of stock and securities fraud discovered in late 2008.

Thérèse Humbert (1856–1918) was a French female fraudster, who pretended to be an heir of an imaginary American millionaire Robert Crawford.

A work-at-home scheme is a get-rich-quick scam in which a victim is lured by an offer to be employed at home, very often doing some simple task in a minimal amount of time with a large amount of income that far exceeds the market rate for the type of work.

Pious fraud (Latin: pia fraus) is used to describe fraud in religion or medicine.

An advance-fee scam is a type of fraud and one of the most common types of confidence trick.

A shell corporation is a company which serves as a vehicle for business transactions without itself having any significant assets or operations.

Emil Rupp (Philipp Heinrich Emil Rupp, 1898–1979) was a German physicist, regarded by many as a respectable and important experimentalist in the late 1920s.

Subex Limited is a global provider of Business Support Systems (BSS) for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Age fabrication occurs when an individual deliberately misrepresents their true age.

Extrinsic fraud is fraud that "induces one not to present a case in court or deprives one of the opportunity to be heard [or] is not involved in the actual issues .

Selling Hitler is a 1991 ITV television drama-documentary mini-series about the Hitler Diaries hoax and was based on Robert Harris's 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries.

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, or Claims Conference, represents the world's Jews in negotiating for compensation and restitution for victims of Nazi persecution and their heirs.

Job fraud refers to fraudulent or deceptive activity or representation on the part of an employee or prospective employee toward an employer.

Insurance fraud is any act committed with the intent to obtain a fraudulent outcome from an insurance process.

A fraudulent conveyance, or fraudulent transfer, is an attempt to avoid debt by transferring money to another person or company.

Jim Norman (born David Philip James Norman IV, October 29, 1948) is a convicted fraudster serving a 20 year sentence in Federal prison.