They found that Levy interfered with data-recording equipment, manually creating fraudulent strings of positive results.

While the equipment will normally operate correctly, this practice may be considered fraudulent if the buyer is unaware of it.

Some thieves have surreptitiously added equipment to publicly accessible automatic teller machines ; a fraudulent card stripe reader would capture the contents of the magnetic stripe while a hidden camera would sneak a peek at the user's PIN.

Among these were the teeth of a reptile / mammal hybrid, Plagiaulax dawsoni, " found " in 1891 ( and whose teeth had been filed down in the same way that the teeth of Piltdown man would be some 20 years later ), the so-called " shadow figures " on the walls of Hastings Castle, a unique hafted stone axe, the Bexhill boat ( a hybrid seafaring vessel ), the Pevensey bricks ( allegedly the latest datable " finds " from Roman Britain ), the contents of the Lavant Caves ( a fraudulent " flint mine "), the Beauport Park " Roman " statuette ( a hybrid iron object ), the Bulverhythe Hammer ( shaped with an iron knife in the same way as the Piltdown elephant bone implement would later be ), a fraudulent " Chinese " bronze vase, the Brighton " Toad in the Hole " ( a toad entombed within a flint nodule ), the English Channel sea serpent, the Uckfield Horseshoe ( another hybrid iron object ) and the Lewes Prick Spur.

Unscrupulous nobles and royal officials would lend their names to bolster the credibility of doubtful and fraudulent claims in return for a share of the property recovered.

Amongst the high number of impractical, overambitious and downright fraudulent schemes promoted during the Mania were a good number of practical trunk routes ( most notably the initial part of the Great Northern Railway and the trans-Pennine Woodhead route ) and important freight lines ( such as large parts of what would become the North Eastern Railway ).

The apostasy would produce fraudulent miracles, signs and wonders ; e. g., supposed cures brought about by relics and shrines.

The media captured the events and reactions at the time thus :" Previously regarded as a gentlemanly leader with a passion for golf, Kibaki has revealed a steely side. With a reputation as a mild-mannered, old-school gentleman ,... Kibaki, 76, showed a steely core by swearing himself in within an hour of being pronounced victor in an election denounced as fraudulent by opposition challenger Raila Odinga and questioned by international and Kenyan observers. Odinga's supporters said he would be declared president at a rival ceremony on Monday, but police banned the event hundreds of riot police sealed off the proposed venue, Uhuru Park for several days.

He is best known in association with the Peralta land grant, also known as the Barony of Arizona, a pair of fraudulent land claims that if certified would have granted him ownership over of land in central Arizona Territory and western New Mexico Territory.

We couldn ’ t really believe they would support Boggs, but several Democratic organizations did come out for Wallace and Boggs, and he received just enough Wallace votes to give him the election .” Republican officials seemed convinced that fraudulent votes in some Orleans Parish precincts benefited Boggs and that Treen may have actually won the election.

Orthodox religious leaders objected vehemently to this ruling, arguing that it would lead to fraudulent immigration applications.

Many government administrative agencies also have the ability to issue cease-and-desist orders and frequently use them to halt the sale of unregistered or fraudulent securities, to halt banking practices that would possibly be dangerous to institutions and to enforce licensing statutes.

Later on, after two allegedly fraudulent elections in 1972 and in 1977, and despite the intervention of the Communist Party of Cuba ( History of the FMLN, newspaper " Frente "), Handal became convinced that the defeat of the military dictatorship would not be possible through elections.

The allegedly fraudulent outcome would eventually lead to the People Power Revolution which ousted Marcos and installed Aquino as president.

He did, however, publish opinion pieces and columns, chiefly in the Richmond, Virginia, Enquirer, in which he deplored the Era of Good Feeling as a false prosperity, given over to banks, tariffs, and fraudulent internal improvements ; these would centralize and corrupt government, and ruin the farmers.

There is speculation that the shooting was not an accident and that Meinertzhagen shot her out of fear that she would expose him and his fraudulent activities.

In response, the phrase was trademarked in 1989 to ensure against fraudulent use that would endanger its credibility.

On a third request for her reward, they replied with an anonymous letter that if it is used properly the company had complete confidence in the smoke ball's efficacy, but " to protect themselves against all fraudulent claims " they would need her to come to their office to use the ball each day and be checked by the secretary.

This meant that there was good chance that the IRS would pay the refund within weeks, barring fraudulent income reporting.

At the same time, his brother Julian Amery attempted ( by producing fraudulent documents ) to show that John had become a Spanish citizen, and therefore would have been technically incapable of committing treason against the UK.

Business Week suggests that Google was unwilling to cooperate with the prosecution, as it would be forced to disclose its click fraud detection techniques publicly, as it also makes money from fraudulent clicks.

" His father, Len Brown, refused to apologize for his own offences ; his lawyer, Allan Roberts, told the court that to do so would be " fraudulent.

The 100 Dirham coin was used in place of the 1 Maltese Lira coin which had, back then, a de facto black market value of approximately 10 Libyan Dinars and thus having a value 100 times higher than that of the fraudulent coin.

The Times then wrote a story revealing that Minkow had run up $ 72, 000 in fraudulent credit card charges in 1984 and 1985.

In his journal he wrote a haunting account of the discovery, then vented his bitter discontent with the conflict: " The government is in the wrong, and this is the chief cause of the persevering opposition of the Indians, who have nobly defended their country against our attempt to enforce a fraudulent treaty.

He said the then government had failed to put its " house in order " to prevent fraudulent voting and accused the government of " systematically ignoring " pleas from the Electoral Commission.

These tampered records are then used to seek investment in the company's bond or security issues or to make fraudulent loan applications in a final attempt to obtain more money to delay the inevitable collapse of an unprofitable or mismanaged firm.

A fraudulent loan, however, is one in which the borrower is a business entity controlled by a dishonest bank officer or an accomplice ; the " borrower " then declares bankruptcy or vanishes and the money is gone.

* Leandro Alem — Argentinian lawyer, politician and senator who took his own life in 1896 after being betrayed by his fellow Radical-party members, who gave themselves to the fraudulent regime then in power in the country, at least according to his view.

The owner of the card is then secretly video taped or observed entering their PIN, allowing a criminal to use duplicate cards to make fraudulent purchases.

( 9 is normally an outside line and 0 then connects to the utility's operator ) The call appears to originate from the business ( instead of the original fraudulent caller ) and appears on the company's phone bill.

One more recent variant involves claiming to be a customer-owned coin-operated telephone ( COCOT ) vendor, connecting an autodialer to what should have been a payphone line, dialing an assorted series of toll-free " wrong numbers " ( such as + 1-800 in US, which effectively reverses the charges ) and then demanding that the called parties reimburse the fraudulent COCOT provider for the cost of " calls received from a payphone ".

The company was accused of rounding up individuals from saloons in Portland's waterfront district, and paying them to sign applications to purchase parcels of O & C lands as " settlers ," then selling these fraudulent instruments in large blocks to corporate interests through corrupt middlemen.

Purchase fraud occurs when a criminal approaches a merchant and proposes a business transaction, and then uses fraudulent means to pay for it, such as a stolen or fake credit card.

Once the stock price falls to the desired level, the fraudster buys the stock ( or options on the stock ), and then reverses the false information — or just waits for the effects of the fraudulent information to wear off with time, or be disproved by the company or the media.

Additional encryption on the card, transaction counters, and other methods known in cryptography are then employed to make cloned cards useless, or at least to enable the back office to detect a fraudulent card, and put it on a blacklist.

São Jorge wines were so highly esteemed that the Count of Almada, then Captain General of the Azores, created the " São Jorge " brand in order to mitigate fraudulent sales.

Welch also claims that Shanaberger attempted to hide " his fraudulent, unethical and illegal behavior " by listing his then fiancee as a shareholder.

Since then Arnebeck has focused on the fraudulent use of computers in counting votes, a main issue in the 2004 suit, as the major threat to American elections.

A victim who is lured to a fraudulent website then triggers the attack by entering the normal login credentials on the counterfeit website.

The victim enters the one-time-password onto the counterfeit website, which then forwards this to the legitimate website, where the waiting fraudster uses it to complete the fraudulent access.

Although not all LBOs are fraudulent transfers, a red flag is raised when, after an LBO, the company then cannot pay its creditors.

The revision of the ballots in 812 ballot boxes found definitively that not only were the questioned Angandanan CoC and SoV fraudulent, falsified, and padded, there was also evidence of post-election fraud in the form of genuine ballots being removed from the boxes, then replaced with spurious ones that had Dy's name in handwriting other than the voter's.

The electric company then responds with punitive " tampering tariffs " that require charge legitimate users for electricity that fraudulent connections and meters might have stolen.

In 721, Yuwen requested that he be specially commissioned to go after census evaders and fraudulent exemption claimers, and, with support from Yuan, who was then a chancellor, Emperor Xuanzong agreed.