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    personality. He first impersonated pilot from Pan Am with Pan Am uniform and a fake employee ID. He called the company and claimed that he had lost his uniform. The company told him where to get the new uniform and charged it to the company using the fake employee ID. When airline companies finally realized and started to chase him, Frank used this first successful impersonation experience managed to fake his new identity, a medical doctor. Over the next couple years, Frank changed from job to job and was eventually caught in a small town of France. Due to the huge amount and the multinational forgery, Franks had to serve in prison in different countries. The U.S. government saw Frank’s ability in forgery and would like to offer him an opportunity. In exchange for freedom, Frank served in FBI for over 30 years and provided his knowledge on detecting document fraud, check fraud, and forgery. There were several serious control weaknesses in identity check system back then. Franks got his first pilot uniform by using a fake employee ID number. To prevent this from happening, instead of ordering new uniform directly from the store by a pilot, the company could use employee record and order the uniform for the employee. The uniform should have employee’s name on it. Therefore, the identity was checked upfront before the order is been processed. As auditors, conformation, insuring, and observing will help us detect such fraudulent activities. Many of Frank’s fraudulent activities…

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    The term “Hacking” came around when two men (Steve Gold and fellow journalist Robert Schifreen) were convicted for forgery under the Act of Forgery and Counterfeiting of 1981. Also these two attackers gain access to the British Telecom Prestel account and got access to all of the Identification numbers of Customers. However, messages were left in the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Phillip) private mailbox. They weren’t intentionally attempting to gain anything. They were both charged with this…

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    The two drivers as well as the owner of the desk broke a series of laws. In order to prove a criminal offense there must be Mens Rea, mental intent required to carry out crime, as well as Actus Reus, the physical act itself. Driver 1 is guilty of Unlawful Appropriation and Larceny from the person. Driver 2 is guilty of Assault with intent to commit specified felonies, Unlawful Appropriation, and Larceny from the person. The owner is guilty of Forgery and Counterfeiting. Forgery and…

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    King Arthur Forgery

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    of his father’s forgery in his life for a multitude of contradicting reasons. The idea that we have a text mediated subjectivity is a concept Arthur permeates throughout The Tragedy of Arthur, as he inevitably becomes the text despite his resistance to it. As Arthur writes the introduction to the The Tragedy of Arthur, he simultaneously writes his own tragedy, the same one his father wrote and apparently Shakespeare, not to mention the author himself, Arthur Philips. Every version of Arthur…

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    “Fake it ‘til you make it” sadly doesn’t always work, especially when what’s being faked is Jesus’s brother’s ossuary. “Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land” by Nina Burleigh was published in 2008, describes the journey and struggle of validating this ossuary. James Ossuary is the main focus of this book, and all of the experts and millionaires that want to have it in their collection. The story of the discovery, travel, and testing of the ossuary is told…

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    After reading, Forgeries of Memory and Meaning I have come to the conclusion of why Cedric J. Robinson argues that the new American social order and economy “required cultural discipline, social habituation, and political regulation. In my opinion, Robinson argues this because during 1915 there were many things that changed the minds of people. For example, after the film The Birth of a Nation directed by D.W. Griffith there was a number of crucial historical events. Which suggest that, “it was…

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    When looking at the state of post World War 1 Germany, you might be lead to believe that the Weimar Republic and its failures led to the rise of Nazism. However, in Modris Ekstein’s Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age, he argues otherwise. True, that the Weimar Republic was crippled due to the Great Depression and political infighting, but Ekstein argues that art played a subtle role in the fall of the Republic. Ekstein’s chapter, The Issue, introduces us to…

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    Forgery in the first degree is the intent to defraud by altering, or possessing any writing other than a check, in a fictitious name or in such manner that the writing as made or altered purports to have been made by another person, at another time, with different provisions, or by authority of one who did not give such authority and utters or delivers such writing (O.C.G.A § 16-9-1). Punishment if convicted for the first offense carries a sentence no less than one no more than 15 years. Forgery…

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    matriarchal family with her at the center. In the 19th century setting of A Doll’s House, men control society and the flow of money through positions of superiority and dominance. The Helmers benefit from the historical economic boom that occurred in the 1940s, which provides for more income and allows Nora and Torvald to climb closer to the top of the social ladder. Nora’s desire to obtain high social status accompanied with her willingness to go to extreme measures to achieve this status wreak…

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    Essay On Embezzlement

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    under-report income to their supervisors and keep the difference for themselves (Embezzlement, n.d.). Forgery Forgery is known as a false instrument and it is a serious offense, punishable as a felony in all fifty states. Forgery involves the making, use, altering, or possession of a false writing with intent to committing a fraud. This crime can occur in several forms, from signing another person’s name on a check to falsifying one’s own academic transcript. Other forms of forgery are…

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