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Panel looks at fraud and fraud investigation

Fraud and fraud investigation, and how businesses and organisations can respond with effective fraud risk management strategies, will be discussed at a free public event on Thursday. The panel discussion, which is part of the Department of E-commerce...
Jun 22, 2015
Football

Fifa endures darkest day

“A very sad day for football”. That is how Larry Mussenden, the Bermuda Football Association president, summed up the arrests of seven top Fifa officials on United States corruption charges in Zurich, Switzerland yesterday. The world’s most popular s...
May 28, 2015
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Fahy: Work permit violators face punishment

Minister of Home Affairs Michael Fahy has issued a warning that penalties with respect to the Bermuda Immigration and Protection Amendment Act are in effect. Speaking in the Senate this morning, he said penalties under the legislation came into effec...
May 20, 2015
International Business

Former Bermuda trader falsified records

A Bermuda-based former trader at an Island company yesterday admitted conspiracy to cook the books at his firm. Michael Craig Marshall, who worked for ConvergEx Global Markets (CGM), pleaded guilty in a US court to one charge of conspiracy to falsify...
Apr 07, 2015
Other

Argentina approaches Bermuda over tax case

BUENOS AIRES (Bloomberg) — Argentine tax authorities say they have requested information from Bermuda in connection with a money manager’s alleged offshore tax avoidance network. The South American country announced that it is seeking the arrest of ...
Feb 23, 2015
Other

Cyberattack on Arnold’s

A cyberattack on Arnold’s supermarket has led to customers’ cards being used in fraudulent transactions, it was revealed last night. The shock news came after Arnold’s store chain chief Frank Arnold said the banker HSBC had alerted the firm to a raid...
Jan 27, 2015
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Bank client: I wasvictim of an ATMskimming attack

A HSBC customer believes he has been the victim of a bank machine skimming attack after members of the public suffered a string of attacks earlier in the year. The customer said that he went to the ATM at Harrington Hundreds to withdraw money he had ...
Jan 12, 2015
Other

Suspected computer scam target speaks out

A local man has described how he was targeted by a man posing as an operator for Microsoft as part of an ongoing scam. Ted Cassidy received a call to his landline last week from a male claiming to be Daniel Higgins informing him that he could check ...
Dec 17, 2014
Other

New bank cards after ‘skimming’ incident

HSBC is issuing new credit and debit cards to those who were affected by credit-card “skimming” this year, but denied rumours that there had been a second incident. Police announced in September that they were investigating an incident of skimming af...
Dec 01, 2014
Other

Former Bermuda-based ConvergEx fined $26 million for fraud

A former Bermuda-based broker and dealer has been hit with a massive $26 million in fines and compensation. ConvergEx Global Markets Ltd (CGM) — which closed its doors in 2012 — was ordered to pay the cash by a New Jersey court after it admitted wire...
Nov 22, 2014
Other

Cheque fraud: Still prevalent in the digital age

This, our final article of ten in our Fraud Awareness Series, considers cheque fraud. Even though cheques are less common today, according to the Information Security Media Group, cheque fraud is estimated to be one of the top three frauds plaguing t...
Nov 20, 2014
Other

Hackers and how to protect yourself from them

This article, the ninth of ten in our Fraud Awareness Series considers cybersecurity, more specifically hacking. There are a number of different tools in the hacker’s toolbox, but this article will consider some of the most common and try to suggest...
Nov 06, 2014
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