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Hospital Workers–A Criminal Operation?

Hospitals have been hiring criminals.  Or so the story goes, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.  The article maintains that King-Harbor Hospital, right here in the City of the Angels, has been hiring anything but angels as part of the hospital staff.   The hospital will fire nineteen employees and discipline another 45. […]

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EMail Job Offers, a Scam Whose Time Has Come

Ed Dickson The recent reports about 1.3 million Monster users having their information stolen from the job site has become somewhat of a major news story. While this seems shocking, the truth is that job sites have been targeted by Internet criminals for information for several years now. Jim Finkle at Retuers (courtesy of the […]

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Scams Against Small Business–Protect Yourself At All Times

When Criminals Come Calling Smaller companies have become an increasingly attractive target for fraud. How you can avoid becoming a scam victim. From: Inc.com | By: Samar Srivastava Mountain States Tent & Awning has been hit by phone scammers three times in just the past year. For Mary Lee Wray, office manager of the Loveland, […]

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Scam Artists Could Be Ruining Your Business

We saw this article on Yahoo.com MarketWatch What 2 crooks told me over lunch By Herb Greenberg Commentary: “You cannot accept information at face value” This column first appeared in The Wall Street Journal over the weekend.SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) — My lunch with two crooks: “Hi Sammy, it’s great to see you.” Barry Minkow gave […]