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Monday, December 21, 2015

Martin Shkreli: The Downward Spiral of Fraud and Greed

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Martin Shkreli, former CEO of a pharmaceutical company is known for buying up old drugs and immediately raising the price to consumers by...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Swisher Executives Charged with Fraud

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In 2012, Swisher, a janitorial and cleaning-supply services company, was charged with allegations of financial wrongdoings.  Now, three y...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Volkswagen Cheats the Emissions Test and Gets Caught Big Time

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The Volkswagen scandal has been all over the news the past several days ( TIME , CNN , Economist ). In summary, Volkswagen committed a ...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Computer Chip Credit Cards – What it Means for Credit Card Security

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Have you ever received a call from Visa, American Express, or another credit card company telling you that your credit card information wa...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

The Hospital Room Incident: Did Lance Armstrong Pay Off Doctors to Remain Silent?

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While it has been several months since we posted about the Lance Armstrong investigation (see this link for previous posts), the case a...
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Thursday, August 6, 2015

Detecting Fraud in Academic Research

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The scientific community is often considered to be less filled with fraud than other disciplines. Typically when we think of fraud, we thin...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Business Email Fraud

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According to the FBI, companies worldwide have lost more than $1 billion from October 2013 through June 2015 due to business email fraud,...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Vegetable Gardens and Rationalizing

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I recently spoke with a friend who used to pick vegetables at a vegetable garden when he was younger. At the vegetable garden, workers we...
Friday, June 19, 2015

What Has the Red Cross Done with Almost Half a Billion Dollars of Donations?

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After the 2011 earthquake in Haiti, the American Red Cross raised half a billion dollars and announced plans to build hundreds of permanen...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Even Cancer Research Lacks Integrity

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An article in Discover Magazine details some of the practices that occurred for 50 years in cancer research that both slowed and misled ...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

How Chocolate Was Used to Fool Millions

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You may have seen headlines in the news a couple months ago proclaiming things such as “Dieting? Don’t forget the Chocolate,” or “Choco...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Fake Diplomas: Too Good to Be True

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An example of a fake diploma issued by one of Axact's fictitious schools, Grant Town University. Earning a diploma for high schoo...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Industries that Rely on the Illusion of Causality

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I've been intrigued (and somewhat disgusted) by industries that sell worthless products to people who desperately want to find a cure ...
Monday, December 29, 2014

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year… For Scammers Too

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During the holiday season, many people choose to give and help others around them, but sometimes due to the spirit of giving that aboun...
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