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Larry C. Adams, CPA
Phoenix, Arizona USA
Certified Public Accountant
Certified Fraud Examiner
E-mail
fraudwritr@aol.com
Telephone (602) 995-8008
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Noteworthy News
Archive 2003 |
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12/15/2003: Web Programming and Design with Macromedia Flash MX
Larry Adams completes a 15-week course at Glendale
College. Try the new interactive Shredded
Photo Puzzle and discover the identity of a famous fraudster. |
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12/11/2003: Terrorism and the Accountant's Role Guest speaker: Paul Charlton, United States Attorney,
District of Arizona. Luncheon meeting:
Arizona Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Location: Phoenix Country Club. Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. Members - $17.
Guests - $34. For reservations, call Marian Salutz at (602) 514-7597 by
12/5.
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11/20/2003: Fraud In Other Words
A new article by Larry
Adams appears in The
White Paper:
 Topical Issues on White-Collar Crime.
Read about the
November 2003 topics: Fright mail,
Anguish letters, Grease the palm, Honeypot, Shamateur, and Typosquatting.
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11/13/2003: Current Fraud Scams from distraction crimes to phony
real estate agents. Guest speaker: Karen Stegenga, Crime Specialist, Mesa
Police Department. Meeting:
Arizona Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Location: Capitol Center, Attorney General's Hearing Room, 15 South 15th
Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona. Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM.
Members - free. Guests - $10.
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10/29/2003: Computer Crimes and Internet Fraud Half day seminar sponsored by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners,
Arizona Chapter. Guest speakers: Gail Thackeray and William Sutter from
the Technology Crimes Unit of the Arizona Attorney General's Office. 8 AM
to noon. Seminar details.
Make reservations and payments by 10/22/2003.
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10/14/2003: Is Driver License Fraud the Frontline for Terrorism?
Guest speaker: Detective Robert Castrone of the Arizona Department of
Transportation Motor Vehicle Division. Meeting:
Arizona Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Location: Capitol Center, Attorney General's Hearing Room, 15 South 15th
Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona. Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. Members - free.
Guests - $10.
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09/17/2003: Challenges Facing Today's Internal Audit
Directors Monthly lunch meeting and afternoon technical session
sponsored by the Phoenix Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors. Guest speakers:
Michelle Snyer from Wells Fargo; Rick Wardrip from Salt River Project;
Ross Tate from Maricopa County; and James Hansen from Farmers Insurance
Group. For more details, send an e-mail to
Helen.Haas@ey.com.
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09/15/2003: A new
Fraud In Other Words article
 by Larry
Adams appears in The White Paper: Topical Issues on White-Collar Crime.
Read about the
September 2003 topics: Remote dialer scam,
sub rosa, watered stock, and XE.
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09/09/2003: Can YOU Pass a
Gullibility Test?
 Guest
speaker: Larry Adams, CPA, CFE, CIA, CISA. Find
out how easily you can be duped, in spite of your intuition and knowledge.
A funny look at how facts can improve or discredit your reports. Meeting:
Arizona Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Location: Capitol Center, Attorney General's Hearing Room, 15 South 15th
Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona. Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. You don't want to
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08/12/2003: Cyberlegality; A Day in the Life of a Hacker; and The Evolution of Intrusion Detection Full day quarterly seminar sponsored by the
Sonoran
Desert Security Users Group (SDSUG) and Computer Associates. For reservations e-mail: hauguelj@
wellsfargo.com. The
meeting is at the Wells Fargo ATM Operations, Fraud, and Claims office in
Tempe, Arizona.
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07/15/2003:
A new
Fraud In Other Words article by Larry Adams appears in
 The White Paper: Topical Issues on White-Collar Crime.
Read about the
July 2003
topics: Curry favor, deep discounting, nostrum, piratsvo,
piratstvo, scam baiting, and unbanked community.
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06/30/2003: Larry Adams completed the AICPA course on
Accounting, Auditing, and Tax for Construction
Contractors. |
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06/03/2003: What can you
do when it's raining? Spend the whole day visiting
The Museum of Hoaxes
Web site. See the photos and discover the stories about the most
amusing and outrageous hoaxes of all time. It's all in
there: the strange deceptions of medieval relic hunters, the great
newspaper scams of the 19th century, the spectacular TV and radio hoaxes
of the 20th century, and the numerous internet hoaxes of the dot-com era.
Don't forget to visit your favorite online book store or local book store
to buy a couple copies of
Curator Alex Boese's
new book,
The Museum of Hoaxes: A Collection of Pranks, Stunts, Deceptions, and
Other Wonderful Stories Contrived for the Public From the Middle Ages to
the New Millennium, Dutton, New York, 2002, ISBN 0-525-94678-0.
Hardback available now. Paperback available in November 2003.
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05/21/2003:
Semiannual Conference on Corporate Accounting Fraud sponsored by
the Arizona Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Three
speakers will discuss cases from an investigator's perspective, a
prosecutor's perspective, and a defense attorney's perspective. The
conference is in the Arizona Industrial Commission Auditorium in Phoenix.
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05/13/2003: Hacking Unix full day seminar sponsored by the
Sonoran Desert Security Users Group. Other topics include "Managing Change
in Security Policy and Compliance," "OS/390 and Z/OS Installation," and
"Installing Unix Systems Services." For reservations e-mail: hauguelj@wellsfargo.com. The
meeting is at the Wells Fargo ATM Operations, Fraud, and Claims office in
Tempe, Arizona.
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05/12/2003:
Red Flags of Fraud
 Guest speaker: Larry Adams, CPA, CFE, CIA,
CISA. The seminar will be presented for Carollo Engineers in
Phoenix. It will discuss fraud trends and clues for detecting fraud
in the companies with multistate operations, including accounts payable
fraud, payroll fraud, and expense account fraud. It will also discuss
resources for locating information about businesses and people using the
Internet. |
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| 05/10/2003: Larry Adams completed a 4 week
course on Internet Training for Law Enforcement Personnel at
Glendale College. |
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05/07/2003: Larry Adams completed a 15 week
course on E-Commerce at Glendale College. It takes lots of good
training to maintain the annual Continuing Professional Education
requirements for certifications like CPA, CFE, CIA, and CISA. |
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05/01/2003: A new
Fraud In Other Words column by Larry Adams appears in The
 White Paper.
Read about the
May 2003
topics:
Bill-and-run, clean sheeting, fall money,
good cop-bad cop, money is the root of evil,
outside man, payola, and weight loss fraud. |
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