The sloppiness ultimately allowed the most highly regulated data that ChoicePoint holds - credit histories - to fall into the hands of the fraudulent businesses.

Section 17500 only prohibits advertising, but section 17200 also forbids "fraudulent business acts or practices" unconnected with advertising.

Russians assume complicity between fraudulent businesses and officials.

Bucket shop refers to a particular type of fraudulent business:

Bosnian banks have given aid money to fraudulent businesses.

Prevent potentially fraudulent businesses from gaining access to duty suspended alcohol by robustly challenging all applications to become an Excise trader.

But your follow-up editorial ("A College Sports Scam," Dec. 30) focused too narrowly on the impact of such fraudulent businesses on high school athletes.

Local ranch hands hence established fraudulent, temporary businesses using ranch supplies.

No such chances for fraudulent business exist anywhere else in the world.

Commissioner Schreyer stated that a black list of fraudulent businesses had been drawn up.