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Order ‘N Thief Explosive documentary presents new evidence of fraud during elections 2004

Investigative journalist Greg Palast, author of more than the current Armed Madhouse democracy and best money can buy, documentaries and also offers sequencing information in the body of film on the RNC’s ambitious and targeted strategies for disenfranchising millions of ‘voters from minority shareholders States - African States, including U.S. soldiers in Iraq.Others are also members of Congress John Conyers, Jr.; lawyers Cliff Arne Beck, John Bonifaz, Robert Fitrakis, Joseph Geller, Peter Peckarsky and Susan Truitt, Chairman / CEO of Common Cause Chellie Pingree, an expert in computer science professor Avi Rubin of the Johns Hopkins and Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., the first public defense of voting rights investigators fraud in Ohio 2004, presidential elections, a statistics expert, Professor Steven Freeman, Ph.D. . The University of Pennsylvania, counsel consumers against the electronic voting system Bev Harris, Franklin County, Ohio Elections Director Matthew Damschroeder and Ohio poll workers, concerned citizens, communities and activists.

In addition to the RNC’s federal campaign disenfranchise American citizens targeted minority groups, several other fraudulent activities are clearly identified: 3600780 votes were for the President of rendering, but I have not counted in Ohio, forensic evidence were found ballot papers of change in rural areas and precincts two stamped ballot papers used for legitimate invalid votes in some urban precincts, and there is strong statistical evidence that not less than five million votes nationally have been redeployed, subtracting five million votes from Kerry and adding five million votes for Bush, for a surge of up to ten million votes on the results officially declared.

DSW last suffer massive retailer stolen credit card.

The last and largest eruption of an epidemic of informing consumers injuries, DSW Shoe Warehouse estimates that thieves stole 1.4 million credit card numbers.The flight to customers, has purchased 108 DSW, including those contained in Buford, Kennesaw, Lithonia and Alpharetta, said the chain.

There is the possibility that it could escalation “of 1.4 million, while the company hopes it all credit cards, Chas Withers, a spokesman for Ohio-based DSW, said Tuesday.

The rash of credit card and theft of consumer information is also vernarbend consumers and merchants. Since the first of the year, a half-dozen companies have reported security breaches of consumers.

DSW said in early March, he was studying the violation of the first news and reports said 140000 credit cards were stolen. DSW said that many lack society

Credit cards dismissed Fix

Do you have any problems for which a mortgage? There are a number of laps to amortize your credit card customer, and a horde of companies peddling. Internet companies are advertising a new tactic, a controversial service, is the latest expression disorder in the world “credit repair.”Launch of companies such as credit-.com Seasonedtrades.com and share a common white lie in the property sector in an entire business. It is an open secret among real estate professionals, potential buyers at home with marginal credit that can improve their credit rating in person with a good credit, so their name authorized user on your card credit - even if they do not have access to the card. With piggybacking on the story of someone credit, loans for their own candidates, credit score. Real real estate brokerage and lending officers sometimes recommended. Seminars have encouraged local art. And now, thanks to Internet companies, you do not adapt to a friend or relative. For a fee of several hundred dollars, businesses, where you have your name “seasoned” credit

Strategic partnerships crimping crime

White-collar criminals are not strangers to this concept. They know that it is to their advantage to the criminal prosecution authorities to operate in isolation from each other.Because Canada’s sophisticated and well-funded white-collar workers, criminals are known to play, as the system - and they were playing against an enemy divided - they have misled consumers and businesses with impunity.

For the years 1990, as advance-fee loan fraud and false lotteries wucherte boiler systems in these areas of cities like Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Often, victims targeted Americans or countries.

Fraudeurs such a significant presence, Canada has experienced for the Suppression of U.S. authorities as Northern Nigeria, in comparison with the country west-central, where criminals dreiste deceive people in the world.

But in recent years, Canada’s law enforcement, their act together.

They have strategic partnerships with such services such as fraud police municipal, provincial and consumers investigators RCMP commercial crime units to promote disclosure of information. They also have a close and continuing partnerships with their American colleagues - Large, well-funded law enforcement agencies such as the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the FBI.

These cross-border partnerships are now flushing fraudulent telemarketers its boiler spaces. The leak is unnecessary dispersion of these cancrelats - Agencies are Fang their prey before disappearing and regroup somewhere else.

We are looking for synergies, “Steve Baker of Chicago, director of the FTC’s Midwest region, says Business Edge.” There are synergies in cooperation. Ensemble is simply more efficient.

The report from California who plans to sell these trips

For the sake of consumer protection, California, Dir Pete Wilson has enacted laws to provide protection against potential fraud travel and bankruptcies. The law, which is a revision of existing legislation is widely expected, they are used as a national model.Travel fraud costs consumers $ 12 billion per year, according to estimates by the federal government.

The organizers travel to California revised law, to promote the assembly of California at San Mateo, Jackie Speier, you meet in January next year in a probationary period of three years.

The law contains provisions for an annual subscription of $ 100 for registration is set for each sale of travel services in the state, and a fee of $ 225 for California on the creation of a new fund to refund consumers.

The law also applies to companies based outside California, are sold in the state services and a business address.

The fees are used to fund a $ 1.6 million managed by a non-profit corporation.

In the event of bankruptcy, failure or fraud, consumers purchasing travel services registered in California, suppliers may apply for reimbursement of the amount paid up to a maximum of $ 15000 a person.

Ohios against the new data laws

A new law makes Ohio ignore the potential of flight data business is not a luxury, large or small, it can afford.Recent data violations by DSW, Lexis-Nexis, and others stress the reality of potential threats. If an offence is going on with you or your company could be forced to bring to your customers or clients or face fines deftige. What is worse, if personal information are violated, it is the belief of clients and customers, you trust as a business consultant.

Effective Feb. 17, Ohio HP 104, sponsored by the Czech State Earl Martin F-Avon Lake, Ohio amended the revised code to require consumer notification for breach of personal information.

Individuals, companies or government agencies or business in Ohio, open to all, his residence in the State of a violation of their personal data.

Consumer registration is required when personal information is based on accessible and has been acquired by an unauthorized person, and may mean that the risk of identity theft or other fraud.

Sarbanes Oxley Corporate under the action of reform

Two-and-a-years after the Congress, most comprehensive reforms undertaken since the Great Depression, trade groups are reviewing manoeuvre they are too expensive, too long and too difficult for small businesses.During recent weeks, including coalitions of industry of the American Bankers Association and trade AEA, formerly the American Electronics Association, have called on their members to gather complaints about costly requirements for tuning, their financial systems to help detect fraud and errors.

The effort is part of a campaign to amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, adopted in 2002, after the expiry of the financial blowups at Enron and WorldCom cost investors billions of dollars and serious lapses in the framework of companies are governed.

Mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments to convince Senator Judd Gregg, RN.H. that the language in a report from the November conference rapid expenditure on an invoice, the direction of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to justify a new rule that forces fund companies to appoint directors unrelated to management .

Flightnumber prevention efforts Come up Short

Some monitoring services that promise credit for protecting consumers against identity theft falling short term, consumers-10’s Kevin Landers reported.Melody Millet is one of the 100 million Americans were victims of identity theft in the past three years. It took almost 14 years for him to learn that someone had stolen her husband’s social security.

The information was used for car loans, credit cards (and) buy houses, “said Millet.” Thus, although any form of financial transaction, you can imagine, the identity of my husband has been used without our consent.

Three major intelligence agencies - Equifax, Experian and TransUnion sell services that promise protection against identity theft for $ 60 to $ 180 per year, Landers reported.

Consumer Reports recently ranked 16 and found that the money not worth it.

Our analysis shows that these services as they present, are often excessive, oversold and overstated, “said Councillor money Consumer Reports Greg Daugherty.

Upper Arlington police detective Jeff Conrad, specializes in identity theft, said that companies must be able to exchange information.

This is not always the case, “said Conrad.” Thus, an organization may have information but it is not shared with others.

There are several ID protection services against fraud available to chat rooms and public research records of identity theft, but a monthly fee, Landers reported.

Conrad advises consumers to place a fraud alert on their cards. The best part is that it is free.

The credit card, consumer agencies, if someone opening an account, “said Conrad.

Dozens of arrests in Crack Down foodstuffs stamp trafficking in human beings

Agents of repression implementation of a federal raid on food stamp trafficking arrested dozens of bartenders, grocers, and other suspected drug traffickers on Friday, to the detriment of trade cocaine and money for food stamps.The arrests were part of an effort on the agriculture division for the eradication of fraud in connection with $ 27 billion a year food stamp program, the federal government’s largest welfare. In the first seven weeks after the raid, 106 people were arrested, charged or convicted.

More arrests or charges, many nationals of dollars of fraud, are likely in the coming weeks, federal officials said.

Author of the program will not be tolerated, “said Secretary of Agriculture Daniel R. Glickman. The operation, he said,” is an example of what the Clinton administration is in the process, and will continue to done to ensure that food stamps for men and children really need.

The Division of food and consumer policy has recently estimated that unscrupulous food paid in cash for approximately $ 815 million in food stamps in 1993.

Nearly Ocilla, in southern Georgia, the hotel fired on Friday, arresting 60 people charged with selling crack and cocaine powder for food stamps, Division of Agriculture said investigators.

To help insurers after data breach

An insurance company will soon Columbus its customers a commercial service, to help them react if the problem of increasing flight data.Motorists Mutual Insurance Co., said the service will help the company to warn its customers that if all consumers of data theft results from a stolen laptop stolen or other data sources.

The service is for all motorists’ trade policies at the beginning of next year, said John J. Bishop, businesses Chairman, President and Chief Executive.

The bishop said the service is “helping individuals are affected by an activity of” breach of security, and will help our customers registration laws. ”

Some motorists among the first to offer such a service in the Midwest, “said Jarrett Dunbar, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Insurance.

The assurances are part of the “growing tendency of companies to start this service by helping businesses to respond to identity theft,” said Dunbar and notes that most insurance companies could start the service, given that more countries adopt flight data message Laws.

In Ohio, companies are required to violations of customer data within 45 days. This provision’s mission, but only if the company is of the opinion that this is a new material risk of identity theft.

Already more than 40 countries have similar laws or distribution are in the process of adopting such a law, “said Khalid Kark, an analyst at Forrester Research, an independent research firm with headquarters in Massachusetts.

During the last six months, more companies to agree on these issues and that they are looking for a concerted effort to become familiar with the subject, “said Kark. This service is something that small businesses need, as most do not have capacity in-house.

The personal data of more than 155 million consumers have been violations of security since February 2005, after data protection Rights Clearinghouse, a consumer group non-profit San Diego.