Phishing has a few clues that you can notice that will help you avoid them:the email has a impersonal greeting that doesn't refer to you by name and the "from" address doesn't match where the email claims to have come from. Usually a company email will have the company's name in its email address. Phishing emails are often asking for information the company should already know, like passwords and other sensitive information. Phishing emails also have are likely to seem "too good to be true" with their offers such as free money or rewards you didn't apply to receive or to win.

Fraud committed by business and government officials is called what?

Fraud is a criminal act, contact authorities first, civil action after.

Individuals cannot 'file charges.' Only a prosecutor may file criminal charges against somebody.

Contact your local law enforcement authorities to make a criminal report. If your information and facts conform with the legal definition of "fraud" in your state they should proceed to make an offense report and an investigation.

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By prosecute you mean sue right because only attorneys and judges can prosecute. Anyway, you file a suit for divorce and the reason would be for whatever you think the fraud is. This is best for a attorney to word so you dont miss anything. When the matter refers to a fraudlent marriage connected with immigration issues the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have jurisdiction. http://www.ice.gov

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The following should not be construed in any way as legal advice. Consult a lawyer before proceeding on this information.

Fraud is a tort. If the administrator or executor of the dead person's estate is served with the lawsuit before the expiration of your state's statute of limitations for torts, you can proceed with the lawsuit against the estate as if it were against the dead guy. If you win, you can claim a judgment against the estate.

Some definitions:

Estate - When someone dies with a will, the will will appoint an "executor" to legally represent the interests, or estate, of the dead person. Those interests include assets and debts. If there is no will, but there are interested persons, either heirs or creditors, the estate will go to "probate" and a probate judge will name an "administrator" with the same job as an executor. If there's no will and no one claims anything against the dead guy, then no estate is created.

Statute of limitations - The amount of time set by law that a person has to sue somebody, from the date of the bad act. In this case, the day you were defrauded.

Served - For a lawsuit to commence, the defendants must be served. Different states have different rules for who may serve a lawsuit, but it's usually called a sheriff or marshal. The statute of limitations counts backwards from the date the defendant is served. Here, you would have to serve the executor or administrator. If there's no estate, there's no one to serve so you can't sue. However, in some states, the statute of limitations is suspended between the day of death and the day an executor/administrator is appointed.

Judgment - An order to pay money. The money would come from the estate.

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One of the fastest growing white collar crimes in 2014 is identity theft. Other white collar crimes are money laundering, mortgage fraud, and Internet scams.

Yes, it's a federal law. Punishable up to life in prison.

What causes it?

People that respond to emails that ask for personal information.

People that buy online despite not checking whether they are using the right site or even making sure that the site is secure.

Yes, because plagiarism means 'to copy illegally' and is basically taking credit for what you copied, and the thing you copied is copyrighted, patented, trademarked, or service marked. Plagiarism is an act of fraud.

The answer to this depends on the circumstances. Certainly if the wife has power of attorney for the husband it's a legal enough transaction. If that is not the case, opening the account may be illegal.

Yes this is true.

Who's 'Duty' is it to Report Fraud?

Internet investigators: including Police, Government, Civil rights, Ombudsmen, Justices of the Peace Personel.

570.223. 1. A person commits the crime of identity theft if he or she knowingly and with the intent to deceive or defraud obtains, possesses, transfers, uses, or attempts to obtain, transfer or use, one or more means of identification not lawfully issued for his or her use. 2. The term "means of identification" as used in this section includes, but is not limited to, the following: (1) Social Security numbers; (2) Drivers license numbers; (3) Checking account numbers; (4) Savings account numbers; (5) Credit card numbers; (6) Debit card numbers; (7) Personal identification (PIN) code; (8) Electronic identification numbers; (9) Digital signatures; (10) Any other numbers or information that can be used to access a person's financial resources; (11) Biometric data; (12) Fingerprints; (13) Passwords; (14) Parent's legal surname prior to marriage; (15) Passports; or (16) Birth certificates.

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