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Poynter nline – Al’s Morning Meeting
Poynter.org – Apr 28, 2008
ScamsThere is no doubt that the infusion of money will lure scammers. The IRS warns:Be aware that identity thieves are already pushing scams involving thestimulus payments. At least one telephone scam is making therounds using the proposed rebates as bait.
3 indicted in scam of elderly
News & bserver – Apr 28, 2008
Attorney’s office in Raleigh would not identify the victim and did not know the status of any extradition effort. Experts in senior fraud have said that scam artists typically find new more sophisticated methods to target victims and cover their tracks as law officers bolster their efforts to catch them. As many as 5 million older Americans fall victim to financial abuse annually the federal Securities and Exchange Commission says. According to the indictments filed in U. District Court in Raleigh the suspects first tricked vulnerable older people into believing they had won a lottery prize of up to $15 million… The second person had previously been defrauded by the scam artists but was told he or she could get a “loan” to use as a final payment before getting the jackpot. The second victim was allowed to keep part of the money — some mailings held as much as $20000 — before shipping it to a Canadian drop site where it was funneled to the scam artists. Using telephone taps and package tracing law enforcement found the Canadian apartment of Atkinson known to the suspect as “Howard Clark” Fleming’s affidavit says. The Mounties waited outside then called the cell phone. “The RCMP were able to hear ‘Howard Clark’ answer the call and speak to an RCMP officer posing as a relative of the Raleigh victim” Fleming said in the document. The Mounties then burst into the apartment and arrested “Clark” who was identified as Atkinson.
Kenya: Grand Hotel Scam Stirs Public utrage
AllAfrica.com – Apr 27, 2008
Pattni has for years been synonymous with the Goldenberg International Ltd the firm indicted for ripping off billions shillings from the Central Bank of Kenya through shady deals. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );The two creamed off Sh158 billion plunging the country into an economic and political crisis it has never recovered from nearly two decades later. The common reference to Pattni as the architect of the Goldenberg scam is in reality a misnomer. Pattni was barely 27 years in 1991 while his co-director and business partner in Goldenberg International Ltd Mr James Kanyotu was twice as old at 62. Kanyotu died last February aged 76. He headed the National Security Intelligence (NSIS) formerly Special Branch between 1965 and June 1992 when he resigned dogged by the Goldenberg scandal. The Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry (1995) report describes Pattni and Kanyotu as primary recipients of the stolen money… I was still a bachelor with a lot of energy. I have two children and do not wish to bring them up from the court corridors" he said during a telephone interview on Friday. A legal analyst who once worked for Pattni estimated that the Goldenberg architect spent upwards of Sh500 million in legal fees alone in those 15 years. It is also possible Pattni read the signs of the times and realised he had run out of options. ne though the Kibaki administration has its long and sticky fingers in its ranks they are not as brazen as their predecessors. Second Kacc seems to have adopted the manners of a cobra in fighting the dragons of corruption: squeezing slowly but surely.
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