Criminals still prefer PCs for stealing personal data, bank and credit card account numbers as well as for running frauds.
But this is the rare list of most-read articles with more pieces about running frauds than about the Donald.
Google may need to run fraud checks or may need to perform additional verification of user accounts, on occasion.
Maxine, the novel's protagonist, chases down con artists as part of her, er, privately run fraud investigation business - that is, when she isn't busy raising her two sons or rekindling her on-again-off-again marriage.
The S.E.C.'s argument that Mr. Madoff's secrecy put the defendants on notice that he was running a fraud scheme amounted to little more than "fraud by hindsight," he noted.
Mr. Madoff, 72, is serving a 150-year sentence for running the fraud through Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.
The lawsuit charged that the owners either knew or should have known their friend Bernie was running a fraud.
Now he is accused by the government of running a fraud scheme that may be the biggest in Wall Street history.
In ordinary civil litigation, it is not unusual for courts to say that the clock starts running in fraud cases only when the plaintiff discovers or should have discovered the wrongdoing.
Federal agents swarmed several medical clinics and homes in New York City on Wednesday, arresting 10 people on charges of running Medicare fraud schemes that bilked the government out of $95 million, federal officials said.
The Mets' owners have asked the Supreme Court for help in their legal battle to prove they did not turn a blind eye to indications that Bernard L. Madoff had been running a fraud over more than two decades.
