Financial Institutions closed or obliged to be taken over; also suspension, cancellation or revocation of authorisations.
From phishing to Nigerian scams, the reputation of financial businesses is harmed by fraudsters. Pass on your expertise and experiences.
Asset Recovery: search, freezing, seizure, confiscation. Originally a civil law procedure by victims of crime, the term has been abused to cover actions by a state which is not a "loser" of assets. Increasingly, it has become a profit centre as well as the publicly promoted purpose as a disincentive to commit crime. Increasingly, regulatory civil penalty regimes are using asset recovery techniques. Click on Contribute to write for us.
There are various definitions of "spam" or "unsolicited commercial e-mail" some enshrined in law which allow promoters of UCE to claim that their junk mail is not "spam." As a principle, UCE is wrong. It drains the victim's bandwidth and storage and leads to a direct cost. It also leads to an indirect cost for the victim as he struggles to contain the tide of UCE / spam. So, in the real world, there is only one definition that matters: did I give this individual organisation authority to send me advertisements. If not, then it's spam. If they want to attract the attention of random potential customers, that is what advertising is for. NOTE: not all spams are scams.