Sentence examples for fraudulent requests from inspiring English sources

The suspects filed thousands of fraudulent requests for tax refunds in the names of prisoners in federal penitentiaries, without the prisoners' knowledge, according to an indictment filed in Chicago.

That broadcast was cut off by a flood of traffic that reached 50,000 fraudulent requests for information per second at its peak.

Because so-called "distributed denial of service" attacks use armies of thousands of unwitting PCs corrupted with invisible software to send fraudulent requests for information at Web servers, an attack's source is often hidden by several layers of redirected commands.

In 2004 a Florida man launched thousands of fraudulent requests at part of Akamai's network, causing an 87-minute meltdown that choked the services of customers, including Google and Yahoo.

As a public company, Xoom appeared to be ticking along at a steady clip, though it hit a bump in the road earlier this year when it announced $30.8 million in fourth-quarter costs related to the suspected impersonation of an employee, along with fraudulent requests that were made to its finance department.

Later, Mr. Seabrook sought to transfer that money to himself by submitting to the club fraudulent reimbursement requests accompanied by bogus receipts, Mr. Wible said.

"Google often receives fraudulent removal requests from people impersonating others, trying to harm competitors, or improperly seeking to suppress legal information," the firm said.

Akamai stopped the flood of fraudulent data requests from knocking out the server, deflecting it to other Akamai servers around the world.

Previous reviews by such oversight agencies as the Government Accountability Office have recited a litany of IRS problems with refunds, including duplicate or wrongful payments and inadequate detection of questionable or even fraudulent refund requests from the outside.

Specifically, Paul alleges Uber used predatory pricing strategies, i.e. subsidized rides and driver payments in order to drive other ride-hailing startups out of the market, and "interfered with the performance and quality of competing ride-hailing apps by using clandestine campaigns to send fraudulent ride requests through competitors' ride-hailing apps".

However, eBay has to devote its energy to policing for today's more sophisticated fraudulent payment requests, phishing, account hijacking and a whole world of arcane bidding trickery.