Quotes About Fraud

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

The true democrat wishes to share the great works of culture with all who are able to appreciate them; the egalitarian, recognizing that genuine excellence is rare, declares greatness a fraud and sets about obliterating distinctions.

From the perspective of a narcissist, a person who claims to love them is a fraud, a liar, or blind.

My love, I caught sight of you a few moments ago, deep in conversation with a very sober-looking man, and I thought here is a bureaucrat sent by Reality to demand a full accounting, to investigate us on suspicion of fraud... on suspicion of being happy. Yes, there is something scandalous, something privileged and elitist about our love, because two people happily in love always turn their backs on the world; and so I am afraid. (From Laura's note).

Government is wasteful, fraudulent, and abusive by its very nature. To get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse, government power has to be dealt with. Government's legitimacy has to be challenged. Its claims of success must be refuted. The people who desire peace and prosperity must accept the fact that government and the politicians never deliver peace or prosperity.

The closest we have to Holy Fools in modern life are whistleblowers. They are willing to sacrifice loyalty to their institution—and, in many cases, the support of their peers—in the service of exposing fraud and deceit.

whenever he goes to the doctor's office is that forty cents of every health-care dollar goes to either fraud or waste.

People have too much faith in large organizations," he said. "They trust the accounting firms, which you should never trust because they're incompetent. On a best day they're incompetent, on a bad day they're crooked, and aiding and abetting the fraud, looking the other way.

Because we trust implicitly, spies go undetected, criminals roam free, and lives are damaged. But Levine's point is that the price of giving up on that strategy is much higher. If everyone on Wall Street behaved like Harry Markopolos, there would be no fraud on Wall Street—but the air would be so thick with suspicion and paranoia that there would also be no Wall Street.

First there is default to truth, which gives the con artist a head start. But when you add mismatch to that, it's not hard to understand why Madoff fooled so many for so long.

because when you run a business, five to six percent of your revenues are going to be lost to theft. That's the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners' statistics.

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

En 1998, el médico Andrew Wakefield publicó un estudio en la revista The Lancet en el que se relacionaba la vacuna del sarampión, las paperas y la rubéola (la conocida como triple vírica) con el autismo. Después, el estudio se consideró un «fraude meticuloso» y se desposeyó a Wakefield de la autorización para ejercer la medicina.

El falso apoyo es una especie de hurto: roba tiempo, energía y motivación a una persona que podría dedicarlos a algún otro fin.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

It was, in the words of the original indictment, the citizens' "right to have the Commonwealth's business and its affairs conducted honestly, impartially, free from corruption, bias, dishonesty, deceit, official misconduct, and fraud.

In 2014—like those Nigerian officers who kept ghost soldiers on their budgets—Military Professional Resources Inc. billed the U.S. government for hours supposedly worked by employees who were actually home on leave.

The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.

Whenever you have a lot of money in play, combined with the ability to hide misbehavior behind complexity, you should expect widespread fraud to happen.

I was not a murderer, but I had become an unholy liar, a shameless impostor, and a highwayman with a marked taste for expensive motor-cars.

PSALM 112    As the majority of mankind expect to prosper by evil deeds, and as they   generally endeavor to enrich themselves by plunder, fraud, and every   species of injustice, the prophet enumerates the blessings of God which   attend those who worship him in purity, in order that we may know that,   in aiming at a life of piety and morality, we shall not lose our   reward.

The human heart has so many recesses for vanity, so many lurking places for falsehood, is so shrouded by fraud and hypocrisy, that it often deceives itself.