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2011 Mexican drug gang attack Twitter hoax

On August 25, 2011 Gilberto Martinez Vera and Maria de Jesus Bravo Pagola made a series of fraudulent Twitter tweets alleging that an attack by drug gangs was in progress at an elementary school in Veracruz Mexico.

Ángel Aníbal Guevara

The election was, however, widely denounced as fraudulent by both left-wing and right-wing groups.

Bank of Maharashtra

The bank attracted negative media attention in June 2013, when newspapers reported the story of victimisation of the bank's ex-Director Shri Devidas Tuljapurkar, who had in October 2012 written to the RBI Governor Dr D. Subbarao regarding fraudulent loans given by the bank.

Baptist Foundation of Arizona

Arthur Andersen, the Big Five accounting firm that audited Enron, paid former BFA investors $217 million for Andersen's failure to identify fraudulent activities at the BFA.

Billet reading

Hereward Carrington revealed the tricks of billet reading (with diagrams) that fraudulent mediums would use in his book The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism (1907).

Canadians of convenience

On July 19, 2011, Canadian Government announced through Immigration Minister Jason Kenney its intention to revoke the citizenship of 1,800 people it believes obtained their status through "fraudulent" means, and residing abroad.

Carr Collins, Sr.

Sales reputedly reached $3 million a year, but then the Food and Drug Administration declared the product (and numerous similar products) fraudulent.

César Batiz

On February 10, 2012, Batiz reported that Jose Rojas, former Venezuelan finance minister and former Venezuelan representative to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, had denied any connection to a “fraudulent scheme” engineered by Venezuelan-American financier Illaramendi Francisco and involving funds from Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA).

Charis Johnson

In the later stages of the fraudulent scheme, she managed to retain investors' trust by repeatedly bouncing blame and failures on other companies, groups, and individuals, including Brigham Young University students and professors, StormPay, ABC4 News of Salt Lake City, Utah and even the government of the United States.

Charles Masson Fox

Masson Fox was born into a Quaker family (although he was not related to the Quakers’ founder George Fox) and was a cousin of the fraudulent sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet.

Charte d'Alaon

The Charte d'Alaon is a spurious and fraudulent charter purporting to provide a genealogy of the house of Odo the Great, Duke of Aquitaine (715 – 735).

Costa Rican general election, 1917

The elections were considered to be fraudulent and although former president Rafael Yglesias Castro received 249 votes in Alajuela, they were recorded as invalid ballots.

Criminal conversion

In England and Wales, the term fraudulent conversion was superseded by the identically named offences under the Larceny Act 1901 and sections 20 and 21 of the Larceny Act 1916.

Cybernet

For the fraudulent company CyberNet Engineering see Barton H. Watson.

Douglas Tottle

Douglas Tottle exposes the fraudulent charge of famine-genocide made against the USSR . . . Skillfully Tottle traces the labyrinthine history of the "evidence" — documentary and photographic — on its convoluted passage from nazi publications to the Hearst press to the misfounded "scholarship" of such present-day Kremlinologists as Robert Conquest.

Edmund Backhouse

Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (1873–1944), his grandson and a fraudulent diarist

Geneivat da'at

The concept is incorporated in three provisions of Meir Tamari's proposed "Halakhic Corporate Code of Ethics" -- insider trading (even where permitted by secular law), product information and advertising, and fraudulent financial accounting reports.

Horace Dyer

In 1926, Dyer was appointed as the special prosecutor in connection with an investigation and subsequent prosecution of Clarence Saunders, the founder of the Piggly Wiggly supermarkets, in connection with fraudulent sales of the company's stock.

Hugh M‘Neile

His experience of the deception of Okey Sisters’ reputed speaking in tongues with Irving, and his knowledge of their later association with Elliotson and his mesmerism, and their well-attested fraudulent deception of Elliotson, must have strongly informed his later views of the activities of magnetists such as Lafontaine.

Human trafficking in Madagascar

A child sex tourism problem exists in coastal cities, including Tamatave, Nosy Be, and Diego Suarez, as well as the capital city of Antananarivo; some children are recruited for work in the capital using fraudulent offers of employment as waitresses and maids before being forced into the commercial sex trade on the coast.

James Steuart Shanks

George Shanks, son of Henry Shanks, is believed to be the first to translate the fraudulent antisemitic text, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, from Russian into English and was a founder of Radio Normandie.

Johannes Brahms

The interview has been declared fraudulent by Brahms biographer Jan Swafford.

José Napoleón Duarte

He lost to Arturo Armando Molina in an election that was widely viewed as fraudulent, with Molina declared the winner even though Duarte was said to have received a majority of the votes; poll watchers claimed the real vote tally was 327,000 for Duarte and 318,000 for Molina.

Judoon

In the novella Revenge of the Judoon, where they seized Balmoral Castle in 1902 after being conned into a fraudulent mission, they made a deal with the Doctor that meant Earth was off-limits to them, something confirmed as canonical with the TV series by the BBC Monster Files feature.

Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

Purporting to represent Native Americans before Congress and state governments in this new field, Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon used fraudulent means to gain profits of $15 million in payment from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

Mortgage servicer

Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden sent a letter to several large lending institutions demanding they review their operations in order to safeguard active-duty military members from illegal mortgage overcharges and fraudulent foreclosures.

Motor vehicle theft

Fraudulent theft: Illegal acquisition of a vehicle from a seller through fraudulent transfer of funds that the seller will ultimately not receive (such as by identity theft or the use of a counterfeit cashier's check).

National Popular Alliance

The year of 1970 saw the electoral defeat of its presidential candidate, the former dictator General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, at the hands of the Conservative candidate of the National Front, Misael Pastrana Borrero, after a close April 19 election which ANAPO and several prominent figures of Colombian public opinion condemned as fraudulent at the time.

Niger uranium forgeries

In June and July, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw testified that the claim in the dossier rested on separate evidence to the fraudulent documents, and that this specific intelligence, obtained from a foreign government, was still under review and had not been shared with the CIA.

Nochex

All payments made via Nochex support the 3D Secure XML standard designed to reduce the risk of fraudulent card holder not present transactions, and are PCI compliant.

Osgood Castle

In 2003 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seized it, claiming he and another partner had purchased it with the proceeds from a Ponzi scheme in which they sold a thousand unsuspecting investors "prime bank notes" with a guaranteed 400% return, for a total of $56 million in fraudulent gains.

Ralph Nader presidential campaign, 2004

Secretary of State Bill Bradbury disqualified many of his signatures as fraudulent; the Marion County Circuit Court ruled that this action was unconstitutional as the criteria for Bradbury's disqualifications were based upon "unwritten rules" not found in electoral code, but the state Supreme Court ultimately reversed this ruling.

Raphael Davis

On April 2012, Davis was arrested at his home in Lomita, California by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's investigators for suspicion of fraudulent claims of workers' compensation from December 2008 to May 2011, while competing in seven professional mixed martial arts matches during this time.

Recovered-memory therapy

Richard Ofshe, a member of the advisory board to the FMSF, describes the practice of "recovering" memories as fraudulent and dangerous.

Rosa Parks v. LaFace Records

(Also named as defendants were several parties not directly connected to the songs, including Barnes & Noble and Borders Group for selling the songs, and Gregory Dark and Braddon Mendelson, the director and producer, respectively, of the 1998 music video. The judge dismissed the music video producers from the case by the reason of "fraudulent joinder," as these defendants had no connection to the case and there was no justifiable reason for the plaintiff's attorneys to add them to the lawsuit.)

Samuel Doe

Foreign observers declared the elections fraudulent and suggested that runner-up Jackson Doe of the Liberian Action Party had actually won.

Scott Reuben

"Doctors have been using (his) findings very widely," said Dr. Steven Shafer, editor of Anesthesia and Analgesia, a scientific journal that published ten articles identified as containing fraudulent data.

Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon

Several cases brought by investors from Brownsville, Texas, also Shearson clients, who claimed to have lost almost half a million dollars in fraudulent or malfeasant trades were combined under Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express Inc., filed suit under both acts.

Sir George Lewis, 1st Baronet

In criminal cases he drew public attention to himself by his cross-examination in the Bravo case in 1875, and from that time onward was connected with most criminal "causes célèbres," being conspicuous in the prosecution of fraudulent persons like Madame Rachel and Slade the medium.

Stella Tremblay

In 2013 Tremblay co-sponsored legislation maintaining that the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 unlawfully abrogated the United States Constitution by removing the original Thirteenth Amendment, so that the document has since then been a fraudulent constitution, and seeking to correct this.

Stigmatized property

Their claims are supported by paranormal investigators such as Ed and Lorraine Warren and Hans Holzer, but dismissed as fraudulent by skeptics such as Robert Carroll.

Thomas Philippon

Michael Brennan Award (volume 22) for the paper "The Economics of Fraudulent Accounting"

Tiger penis soup

In 1996, the Wildlife Conservation Society, an organization that focuses upon wildlife conservation, ran an international advertising campaign stating that claims of sexual potency being enhanced from consuming tiger penis soup are fraudulent.

Trial by ordeal

During the First Crusade, the mystic Peter Bartholomew went through the ordeal by fire in 1099 by his own choice to disprove a charge that his claimed discovery of the Holy Lance was fraudulent.

Vaccine Act of 1813

Dr. Edward Jenner discovered smallpox vaccine in 1796, and hucksters quickly exploited the demand for vaccine by offering fraudulent versions.

William Glendon

In the 1977 securities fraud case Santa Fe Industries Inc. v. Green, Glendon successfully argued that a party challenging a securities transaction permitted under state law must prove fraudulent deception and not just a breach of fiduciary responsibility.


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