Scams

[Declan]

Website documenting fraud tactics: http://www.quatloos.com/
British lawyer in boiler room scamhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10114516.stm
Commissions to be banned: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8589042.stm
Footbal fixing in thin markets: http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100519/SPORT/705189915/1678
Website highlighting medical fraud and quackery: http://www.ratbags.com/
Scam discussion forum: http://www.scam.com/
Bernie Madooff today: http://nymag.com/news/crimelaw/66468/

Financial Risk Management (Mang6020) touches on insurance scams. Here is a recent BBC report on auto accident scams:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11044315 We are interested in what industrance companies do to control this end of the curve.

[Declan]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7862246/How-a-broker-spent-520m-in-a-drunken-stupor-and-moved-the-global-oil-price.html This trader had a very expensive drink.

[Declan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-10623725 BBC article on asbestos.

See also the general Powerpoint for 6221/6029 :
http://www.sotonsom.com/vid/Fundamental%20Snapshot.pdf
http://www.sotonsom.com/vid/fundamental.rar


as well as the thesis http://www.sotonsom.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=50 on ethics http://www.sotonsom.com/theses/ethical.doc.