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- the unethical and usually illegal practice of taking small amounts of money from accounts that belong to other individuals or organizations
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- Debit Card Scams to Avoid
- Crooks are coming up with clever ways to steal money from debit card customers. Here's how to protect yourself. And when it comes to card...
- Articles 2009-07-28
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- Card skimming protections tested. (new anti-counterfeit technologies from Visa International) (Brief Article)
- Card skimming protections tested. Visa International is testing anti-counterfeit technologies that prevent alteration or duplication of a credit or debit card's magnetic stripe--commonly called skimming. The testing will ultimately involve 70,000 act Card skimming protections tested. Visa International is testing anti-counterfeit technologies that prevent alteration...
- Research articles 1994-01-01
- Probe of Stew Leonard's focuses on 'skimming': 1991 raid by IRS agents sought evidence of systematic tax evasion, officials say. (Internal Revenue Service)
- Federal agents are investigating an alleged "skimming" operation at Stew Leonard's, according to sources familiar with the tax probe of the famed Norwalk grocery store. It has been known since last summer that the Internal Revenue Service, wFederal agents are investigating an alleged "skimming" operation...
- Research articles 1992-03-16
- Orbital Receives 19-Vehicle Production Contract from U.S. Navy for ''Coyote'' Sea-Skimming Target Missiles; High-Speed Cruise Missile Target Moves into Full Production for Fleet Deployment and Live Fire Exercises
- DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) announced today that it has received the first full production order from the U.S. Navy for 19 GQM-163A "Coyote" Supersonic Sea-Skimming Target SSST missiles. The Naval Air Systems Command NAVAIR, based at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, awarded Orbital the program's...
- Research articles 2006-02-13
- EFT Task Force Seeks To Stop Skimming Of Debit Cards
- A task force assembled last year by the Electronic Funds Transfer Association to suggest ways to stop the illegal skimming of financial data from debit cards at automated teller machines has drafted preliminary recommendations-most of them common sense, but some of them aimed at creating more standards in payments hardware....
- Research articles 2003-05-19
- Interior cracks down on oil company skimming scams
- Indian Country Today Lakota Times 11-09-1998 Interior cracks down on oil company skimming scams Oil companies doing business on American Indian lands are the subject of close scrutiny and revised standards for the payment of royalties based on fair market crude oil prices. ...
- Research articles 1998-11-09
- More Boston-Area Restaurants Face Wait Staff Lawsuits Alleging Tip Skimming.
- By Douglas Belkin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 2--Three more lawsuits were filed this week by Boston area food servers against restaurants that allegedly kept tips that customers left for waiters and waitresses. The suits, filed...
- Research articles 2002-08-02
- Mobile card reader aims to end skimming.
- Jul 10, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian electronics firm SmarQ has developed a device that can prevent the fraudulent practice of credit card "skimming". The wireless terminals use Bluetooth or General Packet Radio System technology and are designed for...
- Research articles 2005-07-10
- Guilty plea in case of ATM skimming.
- Aug 11, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Australia's first fraudulent ATM skimming scheme has been uncovered. A 29-year-old man, Kok Meng Ng, has pleaded guilty in the New South Wales District Court to four charges of breaching the Commonwealth Financial...
- Research articles 2003-08-11
- Give a little, take a lot. (Kroll Associates investigates possible skimming of oil revenues by Saddam Hussein)
- IRAQS ambassador to the United Nations has said that his country is ready to return the $1 billion in gold and currency it looted from Kuwait. But there is no word that Saddam Hussein is ready to return to his own people the $10 billion he is...
- Research articles 1991-03-30
- BIG STORE'S BIG GAMBLE: Cutting the card; Once unthinkable, sale of credit unit ends an era at Sears.(Finance)(consumer credit programs)
- Byline: SANDRA JONES When Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold its first product on credit in 1911-a cream separator for skimming the cream from milk-all it required from customers was a letter from their banker stating that they were "reliable.'' ...
- Research articles 2003-07-21
- Hypercom Launches Attack on Credit Card Skimming; Hypercom Chairman and Chief Strategist Calls for Industry To Combat New Dangerous Form of Skimming
- Business Editors/High Tech Writers
- Research articles 2001-06-07
- SACHS: DON'T DIS US.(President of the National Cable Television Association speaks to local regulators)(Statistical Data Included)
- Warns Cities Against 'Cream-Skimming' LOS ANGELES -- As cable operators face overbuilds in most of the nation's top markets, cities must not place incumbents at a disadvantage when rushing to dole out new franchises. That was...
- Research articles 2000-09-18
- Two More Are Arrested In International Ring
- The FBI raided a house here two weeks ago and arrested two more Romania immigrants in connection with an international credit/debit card skimming scheme. Six other Romanian nationals were also arrested in New York and New Jersey in connection with the rin The FBI raided a house here two weeks...
- Research articles 2006-03-13
- High-tech recruits are key to Deloitte plan for growth.(Brief Article)
- As part of a plan to nearly double the size of its Cleveland office, Deloitte & Touche Consuiting Group is beating the bushes for seasoned high-tech employees -- and isn't beyond skimming talent from the competition to reach its goal. The cons As...
- Research articles 1997-11-24
- NASA Facility in Virginia Tests for Ozone Erosion.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Dec. 14--The NASA airplane soared at 41,000 feet, barely skimming a thick, frosting-like layer of clouds. Dec. 14--The NASA airplane soared at 41,000 feet, barely skimming a thick, frosting-like layer of clouds.
- Research articles 2000-12-14
- Roche Fraud Case Exposes Corruption Encouraged by Drug Pricing Politics
- Roche has emerged as both victim and enabler in a big corruption case whose basis was the arcane pricing policies of U.S. drugs. In the case, two brothers who ran a medical supplies company were sentenced to nine years in prison for skimming contracts and avoiding taxes. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- How money is swiped from under our noses.
- Nov 10, 2002 (The Sunday Mail - Queensland - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian consumers have been warned about the growing incidence of "skimming". The practice is becoming common at retail outlets, where corrupt sales staff copy the details of customers' credit cards after processing...
- Research articles 2002-11-11
- Fraud watch amid rush.
- Dec 19, 2002 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian banks have warned customers to monitor their credit cards and ensure their bank details are protected. The warning has been issued as shoppers attend to last-minute Christmas shopping in the final days before...
- Research articles 2002-12-20
- Visa on way to all-PIN
- Karen Dearne | November 03, 2009VISA is a step closer to ending the signature scrawl for retail purchases, with all new credit cards to contain a computer chip designed for use with a PIN for greater security from January.Visa general manager Chris Clark said the aim was to move entirely...
- News items 2009-11-02
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