12 posts tagged ‘Fraud’
Google sues two men who sent out fake copyright takedowns
Boing Boing,
Google claims that two men used fraudulent copyright takedown notices to target 620,000 URLs in its search index, and has filed a lawsuit in California accusing them of sabotaging their competitors and trying to damage the search engine's business. Nguyen Van Duc and Pham Van Thien used 65 Google accounts to send a "barrage" of false DMCA notices about competing T-shirt services, according to the lawsuit, which wants them to pay for the amazing amount of time spent dealing with their lies. — Read the rest
Hospitals illegally refusing to provide itemized bills
Hospitals are required by law to send an itemized bill on request within 30 days. When Mike Masnick received an $8,455 bill for getting a minor cut stitched in the emergency room, though, Dignity Health/CommonSpirit refused to do so. Masnick reports that it repeatedly ignored verbal requests after promising to fulfill them, sent inappropriate forms with no instructions on how to file them, gave him fake addresses to send it to when he asked, and refused to speak on the record when it learned he was a journalist. — Read the rest
Ivanka Trump’s Tricky Comeback Tour
The New Yorker,
From Kim Kardashian’s birthday party in Beverly Hills to her father’s civil fraud trial in New York.
Ivanka Trump’s Shockingly Smooth Case of Selective Amnesia
On the witness stand, Donald Trump’s daughter couldn’t remember many details from her time at the Trump Organization, but the prosecution’s document trail proved to be telling.