Fraud Quotations

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

In terms of dangers, such as viruses, fraud or identity theft, I don't think we were thinking about that at all when we got started. If we had been worried about that, the net might have been better today, but we might not have even got there.

Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.

I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.

I think a lot of times there is a tendency in Washington to make rules because of something that was adverse or fraud or something like that. And we make a lot of rules and end up hurting a lot of innocent people that are trying to start up their companies.

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud

Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives.

Every album, I'm worried that I'm a dork and a fraud - 'What if I can't sing anymore?' Then I stop thinking and start playing guitar, and I realize that it's okay to suck, and move forward.

Because Mint has access to all of your bank accounts and credit cards, we can detect fraud or unusual spending patterns faster than your bank, then send an email or text message alert to users.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement.

I think it's time... that we reform Congress to the point where all public assistance comes in one single committee. One area where all public assistance can be located, and it will be easy to see all the duplications, all the waste, so much easier to see areas where fraud is running rampant.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

The post office is able to measure at least $200 million in mail fraud per year. Anything they can do to prevent that only helps them.

The pleas entered today are admissions of guilt in one of the largest corporate accounting fraud schemes on record. This apparent but ephemeral performance by the company propped up its stock price, causing investors to suffer untold losses when the scheme collapsed.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

While many are focusing on the infamous bankrupt entities as the primary culprits for the market losses, once must recognize that several companies that have not been besieged by fraud allegations have also lost billions in value.

What a fraud this whole thing was. A procedural fraud.

We found that American Indians and Alaska Natives, African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be victims of fraud than non-Hispanic whites.

Unless there is negligence or fraud there must be some sort of limitation of liabilities, such as a multiple of fees earned.

Whenever you get that dramatic of an increase, it bears watching. It's always hard to measure the amount of fraud in the market. A lot of investors don't complain.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

Proof by analogy is fraud.

We are all hurt by insurance scams. As health care consumers, we all end up paying the price for fraud. Health insurance fraud perpetrators are basically stealing from consumers who are paying into the insurance system. Whether it's a doctor charging for a procedure that wasn't actually administered or a phony insurance agent selling fraudulent insurance to a senior citizen, the cost of fraud ends up being passed on to consumers.

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

We acknowledge everything from the food-stamp fraud to the van accidents. A lot of those legal problems came from growing pains and oversight. But Bishop Jefferson is making the necessary adjustments for anything that is under his watch.

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

There are more financial misstatements and fraud now. There was a time it was a rare day to get caught in a fraud case. In the last year or two lots of big capitalization, nationally known companies have been involved in financial fraud.

We share the view of the OSCE (the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Observer Mission on the parliamentary elections. That assessment was that despite some improvement, there were major irregularities and fraud that are of serious concern,

The problem with identity fraud is that you can get it all cleared up, but there's somebody out there with your information.

The people I've spoken told me they learned a lot more than they ever knew previously. They understand that check fraud can affect anyone if you're not careful.

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

We are talking about political fraud and blatant stealing of votes. This is an offer which must be rejected.

This program will assist us in trying to help protect players from fraud and identity thieves. Professional athletes have always been prime targets of people who look to damage the lives of players by taking their identities and financially destroying them. This partnership will educate our membership on the importance of reviewing your credit report and monitoring your financial records on a regularly basis.

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

We very much believe that laws are being broken and people are profiting from it. Without prosecution there will continue to be this fraud and subscribers and wireless companies will continue to be the victims.

When we see large account balances, in the thousands of dollars, that's usually a situation when fraud is involved.

We're giving customers more ways to detect fraud and keep an eye on their accounts. They can decide what they want to hear about and where they want to be told. This is another important step to help protect our customers online and give them greater peace of mind.

We're looking at Medicaid fraud like we're a major company.

So far the level of fraud that he has indicated, at least publicly, would not seem to rise to the level that would challenge the results of the election.

Missouri could make huge strides by adopting a state version of the Federal False Claims Act. Millions now wasted by (Medicaid) provider fraud would be available to provide health care to low-income Missouri parents, the elderly and those with disabilities. In 2005, approximately 90,000 low-income Missourians lost their health insurance due to cuts in the Medicaid program.

Mr. Sullivan was not the cause of the fraud at WorldCom. Mr. Ebbers was,

Ms Doherty might have had her heart in the right place for the people of her community, but it is fraud to falsify school roll returns.

Meaningful reforms, more aggressive investigation of workers' compensation fraud and compliance efforts have led to dramatic savings for Florida's businesses. We will continue to aggressively investigate cases of suspected fraud to continue to improve the system for our small businesses and our workers.

Obviously a fraud of this magnitude came as a real shock. It exposed a weakness in one of our control systems and highlighted the risk that all institutions face when the number of digits in our currency grows to such large levels. We have certainly learned from this incident and those lessons will make Cabs even stronger.

No cases of hurricane-salvaged car fraud have been reported in Ohio yet, but it could take up to a year before we start seeing reports.

Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.

I would be very, very surprised if we uncovered a large fraud at this stage. The work we have done would have been enough to uncover a very large fraud at this stage.

I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.

I have always maintained that the case against Michael Jackson was a fraud and a disgrace and these charges confirm that.

Fraud today has a technological twist, but is really old wine in new bottles. The Internet is a great tool for the con artist, though also a tool for law enforcement because it provides a trail.

Fraud is a very high standard. For a court to accept this for fraud, it's going to have to be a very egregious situation.

Fraud alerts don't stop creditors from getting the credit record or credit score. The only type of fraud alert available to consumers before they become victims of identity theft only lasts 90 days, and it doesn't even require the creditor to contact the consumer.

If advertisers and attorneys saw fraud under 10 percent, it would be dismissed as an accounting error, but the lawsuit and our client data makes it clear, that the fraud rate is much higher than that.

If a consumer is paying late, or not making credit card payments, they know that before it hits a credit report. The only thing this might be a safeguard against is some kind of fraud -- and my understanding is that the credit reporting agencies have safeguards.

If we are certain that no serious infringements or fraud have occurred, then we will deal seriously with the new reality,

If the fraud is clever enough, it is likely that referees and editors will not notice it.

If the Federal Election Commission ignores the complaint of fraud and corruption in the Buchanan campaign and awards him the $12 million ... we will obviously sue in the U.S. Court of Appeals. We will pursue this every step of the way.

He works himself into states of crisis and distress, worrying that people are going to know he is a fraud and that his career is over.

He failed to comply with the conditions and was perpetrating a fraud on the court. How can people think that is the right thing to do?

There is a fraud going on in this country where offshore hedge funds dwelling in an unregulated environment are selling massive numbers of shares short and doing various schemes not to cover (their short positions), ... In the process, companies are getting destroyed, technology is getting destroyed, and hard working Americans are getting screwed.

Today culminates a process of nearly two years to investigate and prosecute allegations of fraud against a state tax credit program that is intended to bring economic development to areas of our state most in need of growth,

We looked at private equity when we were considering hedge funds but there was no similar record of problems - evidence of fraud - that merited the devotion of inspection and other resources.

He is out of touch. Let him take the side of people who committed fraud and stole billions from investors and retirees. We'll take the side of working people who got screwed by corporate crooks. We'll see who wins.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to repay

I think the jury saw right through those fraud counts and voted accordingly.

I think a lot of folks who were at that meeting felt pretty chagrined, I would argue this is still pretty material information, given the high profile nature of this company and the emergence of click fraud as a high-profile subject.

I think there's some kind of fraud here.

People are getting more creative and sophisticated in their fraud schemes.

Over the past half-dozen years they've spent almost $2 billion in various kinds of safeguards, to make sure that people are registered correctly, to make sure that there's minimum opportunity for fraud on the voting cards, to have as much of a foolproof conduct of the election as possible,

Our solution provides a clear return on investment for TJX by identifying millions of dollars in previously undetected fraud risk. It enables The TJX Companies to reduce fraud and contribute to their bottom line. Not only is this a win-win for both of us, but for consumers as well. With margin pressures and stiff competition, shrinkage reduction is one of the few places that retailers can gain a competitive edge.

outsource the main bulk of Job Centre work, benefit processing, fraud investigation and incapacity benefits.

Right now scientific fraud and misconduct is alive and well in this country. We don't have to go to South Korea.

Recent reports show ID theft topped the FTC list of fraud complaints again in 2005, indicating both heightened incidence and awareness of the crime. While awareness is an important first step for consumers, education is critical to preventing identity theft. This underscores the importance of experts like Lance in raising the visibility of best practices and emerging fraud tactics both on and offline, offering credible resources useful in protecting against the damage identity theft begets.

Our research on holiday gift returns shows that it's only three percent of Americans who are real jerks and they indulge in consumer fraud and return abuse. The rest of us have to deal with the consequences.

People have developed a false sense of security when it comes to checks. They feel check fraud is something that happens to someone else.

MarkMonitor is pleased to support the APWG in continuing its heritage of being the definitive source of online fraud information and statistics. MarkMonitor provides uninterrupted, 7x24x365, identity-based fraud detection and response services for APWG and its members. We're excited to take a leadership role in providing both confirmation services of phishing attacks and introducing new metrics as part of APWG's ongoing reporting activities.

It does not currently help us in cases of identity fraud when an individual assumes someone else's name by using their Social Security number. We believe companies should not be placed in the role of policing who has proper work documentation.

I think he is going to find these votes were not a case where the voters were confused elderly voters or ill-educated voters. I think he will find this was a case of organized fraud and will recommend Vanessa take office immediately and not be held up in appeals.

It is certainly something that we thought has been happening for some time. What you are likely to see here over the next few days is the unraveling of an entire identity fraud gang.

It is certainly disappointing that, despite the recommendations from federal organizations and nongovernmental groups, many states still have not made progress to make sure their electronic voting systems are safe from fraud and can be relied on to accurately count votes, ... America's voting system must be made to be world class, everywhere in the country, as soon as possible.

It is entirely appropriate that the money go out just as quickly as possible to people whom we think need it, and to worthy contractors on a competitive basis. But in the rush to do it, there is real potential for waste and certainly for fraud as well.

The amount of fraud is less than the previous elections, it is very small.

The astronomical scale of the amount of benefit money being lost through fraud and error is vividly brought home to taxpayers by the astonishing fact that the figures are rounded to the nearest half-a-billion pounds.

That was a fraud intended to seize power, and look what they did with it. They kept creating crises which Ukrainian people struggled to overcome.

Most fraud like that is internal. People take the data from inside, steal it, and go. Those con artists are very good. There's no limits to their imagination on trying to get the information they need to rip you off.

Will it decrease fraud to zero? No. But if we reduce it to 50 percent, it could save $10 billion to $15 billion.

Where we are right now is having a considerable amount of evidence that the FBI is still withholding information. What has been turned over and what has not been turned over, together, create a tapestry of what we believe is a fraud on the court perpetrated by the government.

White collar cases are always convoluted. They're very complex and this is basically conspiracy and theft of honest services. That goes into the wire fraud and mail fraud statutes.

We provide insurance for all sectors of the motor trade. However, to remain competitive, it is important that we combat fraud at all levels. I see Advances playing a crucial role in achieving this and I am encouraged by the results Advances is delivering for its existing customers.

We hope this proposal will become part of a larger effort to crack down on fraud in our unemployment insurance system.

We hope the word is getting out that insurance fraud will not be tolerated in Kentucky.