"fraud" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As a digression: this also makes Utah the nation's major state for "affinity fraud", where the trust within a community is used to promote Ponzi schemes and get-rich-quick frauds.
- And 'affinity fraud' does run rampant in Utah, according to FBI reports.
- Agencies such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have investigated and taken action against affinity frauds targeting a wide spectrum of groups.
- "Armenian-American community loses $19 Million": The SEC's complaint alleges that this affinity fraud targeted Armenian-Americans with little investment experience, for some of whom English was a second language.
- That type of swindle has become so prevalent, in fact, that the regulators have given it a name - affinity fraud.
- The North American Securities Administrators Association, an organization of state officials, calls affinity fraud the second most common investment fraud in the country.
- The authorities label these schemes "affinity frauds," because they take in people who have a common interest.
- Salim Damji is a convicted fraudster who stole millions of dollars in an affinity fraud.
- State securities regulators are also troubled by the rise of religious affinity fraud.
- A scheme that targets members of a particular religious or ethnic community is a type of affinity fraud, and a Newsweek article identified Madoff's scheme as "an affinity Ponzi."
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