Cyber Crimes: The Nightmare Scenario for Your Business
Your company could sustain huge losses due to the compromise of an employee e-mail account. Seemingly legitimate communications and requests may actually be signs of a fraudster attempting to commit a scam called Business E-Mail Compromise (BEC).
How does this scam work? The goal of this type of scam is to compromise business e-mail accounts and trick employees or other individuals into wiring...
Blacklisted By Freddie Mac: How a Short Sale Can Mean a Long Road to Redemption for Real Estate Professionals
Hollywood. Railroads. Mining. You may have thought blacklisting was a forsaken part of America’s past, but if you’re reading this, you may be a victim of this devastating tool. Used by some of the largest and most influential institutions, blacklisting is alive and well, now cloaked in new terms and greater secrecy.
Birth of the Subprime Market.
2008 is an infamous year that still engenders...
WHEN WALL STREET COLD CALLS YOU
You see it in movies — an image of slick stock broker in a basement boiler room in Manhattan, Brooklyn or Staten Island cold calling customers. The pitch is standardized. The broker has a secret stock or IPO just for you (the innocent investor), but the catch is you have to act now because the opportunity won’t last and there is a limit to how much you can buy. The broker gains your...
FAQ: Salesperson Pay
Dealers must be careful about violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. These actions can be filed either as individual actions or as group actions in federal court, and they can be lucrative for plaintiffs’ law firms. In fact, there are law firms springing up around the country that do nothing but FLSA work on behalf of employees. Here are three questions regularly asked with respect to...