Business Scandals
Finding More Information
This page contains links to important sources of information on financial
scandals, corruption and fraud, miscellaneous articles on this topic, organisations
providing advice and useful sources for further research.
General Sources on Corruption or Alleged Financial Wrong-Doing
- Corporate Narc
- The mission of CorporateNarc.Com is to educate the public in consumer
affairs, to provide consumers with up-to-date business information and
expose business fraud and corruption, as well as unfair and deceptive
business practices.
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- Crimes of Persuasion
- In depth explanations of various white collar crimes such as prime bank fraud,
pyramid scams, internet fraud, phone scams, counterfeiting of financial
instruments, chain letters, modelling agency and
"Nigerian" scams, computer fraud and telemarketing fraud.
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- Crimenet: Con Artists and Scams
- Part of an Australian site. It is possible to search the pages by
name, location or keyword.
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- Protect your money and your dignity
- Advice for the elderly in particular from Age UK
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- Offshore Business News &
Research
- OBNR provides offshore business information on companies and individuals
operating in countries where independent and accurate information is often
difficult to obtain. Since the launch of its investigative newsletters in February,
1997, the company has exposed numerous frauds in the Bermuda-Caribbean region.
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- The Independent Banking Advisory
Service
- IBAS exists to give advice to people who are having problems with banks in
Britain.
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- National Association of
Bank/Insurance Customers
- An independent self help group for all private and commercial users of UK bank
and insurance services.
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Global Investor Calendar of Conferences on Crime and Fraud
- Details of forthcoming conferences on crime and fraud.
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- Corruption et
criminalité économique
- A large selection of links from the Strategic Road site which also
covers many related topics. There are also details of books in French on
corruption.
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- Restitution and
Unjust Enrichment
- An excellent guide to legal resources from around the world.
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- Shmuel Vaknin's Web Site
- Vaknin is an Israeli economist. His site has several articles on financial
scandals, including one on the Typology of financial scandals.
Although many of Vaknin's articles deal with the Macedonian economy he claims
that the Macedonian economic experience is so generic and so widespread, so varied
and so concentrated - that it really served as an ideal laboratory.
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- Criminology: Corporate Criminals
- An introduction to the subject of corporate crime from a website on criminology.
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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
- Some of the stories in its website deal with financial scandals.
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- About Identity Theft
- AboutIdentityTheft contains a large collection of articles written by experts who continually update and add new content.
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Phishing scams that target activities, interests, or news events
- Advice from Microsoft on how to avoid frauds.
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Common Frauds
- Information from Lloyd's bank about common frauds involving e-mail
messages.
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A Guide to Computer Crime and Prevention
- Information about how to avoid becoming a victim of the common types of computer crime.
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Common Frauds
- Information from Lloyd's bank about common frauds involving e-mail
messages.
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Sophus: Scams
- Sophus is a website devoted to exposing Internet hoaxes. This part of it covers common scams.
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- Internet Scambusters
- A free electronic newsletter on Internet-based scams. The site has links to
other relevant sites.
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- White-Collar Crime Fighter
- A monthly newsletter with useful information about the latest frauds, scams and
schemes...and the newest and most effective crime-fighting tools, techniques and
technologies around.
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- How to Avoid Fraud?
- Advice of a Swiss Bank Agent, provided by
cs-trans.biz, a network of
international business resources, powered by lawyers, academicians,
bankers, journalists and translators worldwide,
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- Skolnick's Report
- Sherman Skolnick is a legal researcher whose website often has articles about
alleged financial wrong-doing.
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- AuditNet's Fraud/Investigative
Resources
- Links selected by Jim Kaplan of AuditNet.
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Yahoo Internet Fraud links
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- Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Scams / Frauds
- The RCMP website provides information on the latest scams.
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- Quatloos Directory of Scams &
Traps
- Various categories of common financial scams are explained.
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- Pyramid
Schemes
- A page by Robert Teeter outlining what is wrong with pyramid schemes and
containing links to additional sources of information.
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- The Diligizer
Board
- This Board has been created for those who seek information regarding the
backgrounds of and/or the experiences others have had with individuals/entities
who/which have offered or are offering high-yield investment opportunities (HYIP)
to investors worldwide.
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- Social Justice and
Economic Freedom
- A site with emphasis on the political aspects of economic scandals.
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- Bill
Tupman's Transnational Crime page
- Part of a website maintained by a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter.
Among the links are some on economic crime.
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Miscellaneous Articles on Fraud, Corruption etc.
- Psychology of Risk,
Speculation and Fraud
- The text of a speech at the Financial Panel 1997 of the European Research
Center, Amsterdam, 11 June, -Will the EMU Pay Off? Anticipating the Effects on the
Market, in which a novelist who is herself a former banker explores the motivation
of speculators and fraudsters and how the former can degenerate into the
latter.
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Ten of the world's greatest frauds
- A list of remarkable frauds from the Times, December 15, 2008.
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Financial scandals alive and well in 2003
- The year in review from MSNBC.com.
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- Corporate crime
wave
- The New Internationalist magazine devoted its July 2003 issue to this
subject.
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Corporate Malfeasance
- An article about how trusted financial market aprofessionals abandoned
ethical principles repeatedly, in both bull and bear markets.
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- Value Quotes
- Quotations on values and business ethics from Socrates to Hsi-Tang, from Genesis 1:1
to the Dalai Lama, and from Warren Buffett to George W. Bush.
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- Civilising Mammon:
Fraud and Profit in Nineteenth-Century London
- An account by Paul Johnson, professor of economic history at the
London School of Economics and Political Science, of two frauds, one
involving the naval hero Lord Cochrane and the other Harry H. Marks, a
newspaper editor and member of parliament.
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- Human
nature in financial boom and bust cycle
- An essay on the scandals of the first few years of the 21st century compared
with the situation depicted by Fred Schwed jnr, in his 1940 book, Where Are the
Customers' Yachts?.
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- The Cycles of
Financial Scandal
- A article on waves of financial scandals from the 19th century onwards. New
York Times, July 17, 2002.
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Prime Bank / High Yield Investment Schemes
- An article exposing a common scam. The authors are Joel E. Leising and
Michael McGarry, two attorneys who are experts on fraud cases.
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- The 100 Top Corporate
Criminals
- Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman. A list of firms ranked by the sizes of
fines imposed on them by American courts. There is a brief summary followed an
annotated list with more details of the reasons for the fines.
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- Greenspan on
Challenges facing community banks
- Fraud has been a factor in a number of recent bank failures in the United
States, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (March 2000).
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- Financial
Regulation in Denmark and Britain
- Summary of a thesis by Ben Kjeldsen.
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- Danger - Banks Ahead!
- by Sam Vaknin who claims that banks are the most unsafe institutions in the
world. Every few years there is a major collapse of hundreds of them
worldwide.
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- In Praise of Insider Trading
- An article by Matthew O'Keeffe published by the Libertarian Alliance which
argues that insider trading should not be a crime.
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- Books
on Fraud, Ethics and the Law
- Various books on these subjects published by the Institute of Internal
Auditors.
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Institute of International Banking Law & Practice: Fraud Publications
- It is possible to place orders online.
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- Episodes of Financial
Fraud and Speculation
- Thayer Watkins of San José State University discusses a couple of
classic cases: Alves Reis, the notorious counterfeiter of Portuguese currency, and
the collapse of the Penn Square Bank of Oklahoma City.
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Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes by John Franch
- Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905) was one of the most influential and controversial public figures in America. Robber Baron is the first biography of the traction magnate who was behind the Chicago Loop Elevated, an investor in the London Underground, namesake of the University of Chicago's observatory, and vilified as Frank Cowperwood in Theodore Dreiser's trilogy trilogy, The Financier, The Titan, and The Stoic.
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- Economic Crime: Beyond Good and
Evil
- An article in pdf format by Ian O. Angell, LSE Centre for Computer Security.
The author claims that the growth of economic crime is a sign of the loss of faith
in the nation state and that definitions of crime are simplistic.
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- The Spiral of Fraud
- An excerpt from the book "Policy Ensurance" compiled by Tony Braga.
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- The Financial Crime Conference, London
1995
- A report of the papers by Jimmy C. Tseng.
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- National Westminster Bank Fraud
- A web site created by Umang Malhotra to publicise his disputes with the
National Westminster Bank.
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Useful Sources for Further Research
Guides to Business Information
- MBAOnline Guide to Finance
- A guide to relevant resources covering topics such as education, news, financial tools etc.
Web Sites Covering Business News
- Financial Times
- The website of one of the world's best-known business newspapers.
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- Wall Street Journal
- A subscription only site.
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- CNNfn's searchable
archive
- News items from the CNN Financial Network.
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- BBC Business News
- The main news stories from Britain and around the world.
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- Financial Director
- The website of a monthly British business magazine.
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- NewsNow
- Business news stories. The site is updated every 5 minutes.
General News Sources
- Google News
- About 4,500 news sources are covered by the search engine. It also has news archives and blog search facilities. Another useful feature is Google News Alerts. If you sign up for that service you will be informed by e-mail of any news related to your interests.
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- Yahoo! News
- Another very large categorised directory of news stories.
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- Ananova
- A directory of news stories arranged under various categories, including
business.
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- Everything
News!
- Links to a variety of news sources from around the world.
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- Special Libraries Association News
Division
- The SLA gives information about the availability of newspaper archives on the
web.
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- World Wide News Headliner
- Direct access to many different Internet news sources.
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- World News Network
- The main news stories from around the world.
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Usenet News
- Google Groups
- Usenet news is a good source of gossip and information (or misinformation)
about scandalous matters! Google not only provides access to current discussions but
also has a searchable archive going back, in the case of some groups, all the way to
1981! In addition to the standard keyword searches it allows you to limit searches to
particular newsgroups or people or time period, if you select the Advanced Groups Search
option.
Miscellaneous
- NameBase Public Information
Research
- NameBase is an online index to names of individuals, groups and corporations
compiled from hundreds of investigative books and thousands of pages from
periodicals over the past few decades. Areas covered include the international
intelligence community, political elites from the Right and Left, the U.S. foreign
policy establishment, assassination theory, Latin America, big business, and
organized crime.
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- The US National Security
Archive
- The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a
library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act.
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Due Diligence Investigation & Fraud Investigation Data
- This contains about 95,000 names of which the great majority are from the United States, particularly Massachusetts.
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- The Pierpont Column
- A regular feature by Trevor Sykes in The Australian Financial Review. The
archives go back to 1995.
Magazines, Journals and Books
News items often have only a
fleeting existence on the Web. To find links to items concerning relatively recent
developments in financial matters use a database of journal articles. Many such
databases are restricted to members of institutions which pay a subscription for
access but there are some which are generally available to anyone.
- Ingentaconnect
- A full-text database of over 5,000 journals. Individuals who are not members of
subscribing organisations may purchase copies of most articles.
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- FindArticles.com
- An archive of published articles from magazines on various topics, including
business, that you can search for free.
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- Amazon
- The world's best-known online book shop has a huge database. Amazon.co.uk is its British branch.
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- Library of Congress
- You can search the catalogue of the world's largest library.
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- LibDex
- Worldwide index of library catalogues, web sites and Friends of Libraries pages.
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