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Did I order a woman online?

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It's development of an old scam but it's bizarrely humorous.

FCRO Subsection:

The Phishermans's Tale

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Speakers should scrap slides and use handouts instead

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I abandoned using slides in presentations in Europe in the 1990s. Working in Asia, there was an expectation that there would be slides and if they were not used - and handed out to the audience - there was considerable criticism. In many cases, that persists. But in the 2000s, I reverted to presentations without slides which puts the onus on the audience to make notes. It's a policy I have extended to e-learning with intra-course Scenario pages and reinforcement for which note-taking is encouraged. It's why we chose against including a notepad in our e-learning system. My view was simple: I knew that the stuff I remembered best was the stuff I wrote down - even though my handwriting was so poor that, often, I couldn't read it back. The simple act of making notes locked information into my memory, even when I was doing it almost on autopilot whilst listening to what was being said. If it worked for me, I reasoned, it would work for everyone. New research by Hetty Roessingh, Professor...

BIScom Subsection:

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Legal Privilege: Australia puts the cat amongst the pigeons.

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Financial Crime Risk and Compliance Training (our sister division) has added five pages to its course "Essentials: lawyers and money laundering, etc." New court judgments in Australia are set to revise attitudes to notices compelling delivery of documents.

CoNet Section:

Legal Profession

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Phishing: IMF used as hook

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This is so amateur that it's worth our publishing it. The "reply to" address is at a free and anonymous mail account in Hungary: georgievakristalina01@vipmail.hu . But there is something interesting.

FCRO Subsection:

The Phishermans's Tale

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Sanctions: Deutsche Bank's US woes take a step closer to resolution.

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Deutsche Bank will, in the not too distant future, become a cause of study in universities, colleges and business schools across the world. It will become the iconic example of how not to run a bank.

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Sanctions In Action

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It's taken 10 months but the scammers are back on the phone.

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For the background to this story, see here: https://www.pleasebeinformed.c... and here: https://www.pleasebeinformed.c...

Now the fraudsters, or their associates, are back. And this time they have new telephone numbers.

FCRO Subsection:

Financial Crime News

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Extra-territorial jurisdiction: borders in e-commerce

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Australia has once more taken action against an overseas corporation in respect of the terms and conditions it imposes on purchasers in Australia.

Is Australia's approach to policing e-commerce workable in a global economy?

CoNet Section:

Consumer Protection

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England: Banker jailed for lying to the Court

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RIZWAN HUSSAIN has been jailed in the Central London Country Court (a court of first instance) by HH Lethem, J. Hussain has squirmed, wriggled and lied so as to remain in a flat he rented in South West London.

BIScom Subsection:

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Australia tries to solve its dead battery problem.

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Dots, here's a line. We hope you like being joined up.

The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has "granted authorisation" for a scheme to collect and recycle batteries. The scheme, known as "The Battery Stewardship Council," was originally launched in 2918. In December 2017, Elon Musk's Tesla company installed the then biggest Lithium-Ion battery in the world in South Australia. This week, it's been announced that its size has been increased.

Publication:

Little Blue-Green Planet

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Identification: airline employee guilty of faking employment credentials

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You know that thing about airport security, where no one gets on a flight if they aren't who they say they are? And you know that the USA is so obsessed with airport security under its "war on terror" thing that all flights are locked down tighter than a tight thing?

It's not true and this document fraud shows how lax security really is in the US aviation industry. Remember this the next time some one questions a detail on your ticket at check-in. It's the old thing - the bigger the lie, the less people are likely to spot it.

FCRO Subsection:

Financial Crime News

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Remember the Millennium bug that wasn't? Well.... Boeing were simply late to the party.

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There was a millennium bug joke - an airline captain told his passengers that one of the aircraft's engines had cut out because of the millennium bug but it was OK because the other one was still working. Then his co-pilot told him that the clock on that one was a minute slow.

Of course, no airlines fell from the sky at midnight on 31 December 1999 and even the dozens of chips in some of the USA's nuclear missiles that were causing concern turned out to be just fine.

So, that's that then, you might think. But no.

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Societe Generale Securities Australia to be subject to additional licence conditions.

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The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has imposed additional conditions on the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Societe Generale Securities Australia Pty Ltd (SGSAPL) to ensure compliance with clients' money regulations.

FCRO Subsection:

Regulatory Case Studies

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Lawyers and money laundering: the ESSENTIAL course

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Publication:

PleaseBeInformed-EffectivePR.com

Industry:

Lawyers / Law Firms

Post date:

20/08/2020 - 08:51

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London 20 08 2020 08:20 GMT

Financial Crime Risk and Compliance Training is delighted to announce its latest e-learning course - Essentials: Lawyers and Money Laundering Etc.

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The "corona economy" - is it a thing or is it a fraud? That's a rhetorical question.

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Good grief. This arrived today. It's a straight copy, errors included but with the links redacted. And if there really is someone called "Blythe Masters," if I were you I'd sue your parents for giving you such a stupid name.

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Goodbye dodgy TLDs

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That's it. We've had enough. Until internet domain name registrars start to adopt responsible practices over who they sell domains to, especially the plethora of top level domains that criminals habitually use for the nefarious activities, it's time to block them entirely.

CoNet Section:

IT & Communications

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