The Philippines has always had a problem when it comes to crime. Because of the poverty in the country, Filipinos tend to resort to immoral actions in order to gain money. People become creative when in times of need and thus they create a type of fraud or scam that is suitable for their needs. Various frauds have been exposed in the Philippines. Salisi gang, budol-budol gang, and riding-in-tandem are just some of the modus operandi done by criminals in order to gain additional income. One type of scam has gained attention in the new recently. It made news not only in the Philippines but also in other countries as it affects both Filipinos and foreigners alike. This scam is known as the “Laglag Bala Scam” or “Tanim Bala Scam”, and it has been Based on an article published by Lara Tan from CNN Philippines, there are five ways to avoid being a victim of this scam. The use of hard cased luggage makes it harder for the security to plant a bullet in the bags. Wrapping the bag in plastic also makes it harder to plant bullets. Also, when security is checking your bags, make sure that there are witnesses, lawyers, or official supervisor present in the scene. This reduces the likelihood of a security personnel trying to scam you. The fourth way is to defend your right to remain silent. In the occasion that a person is accused of bringing a bullet, he/she must defend their right to remain silent, and the victim must state that anything that he/she says without the presence of a lawyer will be inadmissible in court. The final way to avoid being a victim is to know you legal rights. By following these tips, one will be able to avoid the infamous scam that is the Laglag Bala Scam. In conclusion, the Laglag Bala Scam has nothing but negative effects on the country. It affects Filipinos and foreigners alike. Furthermore, the scam has a negative impact on the tourism of the country, and as a consequence, the economy is also affected. Lastly, the government’s image is compromised until they take steps in order to resolve this
The author of the book "419" is Canadian author Will Ferguson. In the book, the author examines the common form of fraud, whose peak came 80 years with the advent of mass mailings of letters by mail, and then, by the Internet. Usually the fraudsters asks the mail recipient help in multi-million dollar money transactions, promising that he will have a percentage from this money. If the recipient agrees to participate, he gradually defrauds the increasingly large sums of money, allegedly for taxes, bribes to officials, making deals, etc. Often during extortion, fraudsters use psychological pressure. I think the title of this book came from Nigerian criminal code for fraud 419. Today, the scale of the crime syndicate are amaze, and with the advent of the Internet, they have further increased. Letters from Nigeria today are worldwide, and they are millions. Although many of you will think this is funny, but only in the United States according to police estimates each year they make around 100 million dollars, with a clear growth tendency.
The groups of nomadic peoples that are increasingly well known for their home improvement scams are known as the Irish Travelers. Over the years they have been the subject of various news stories and exposes. Almost exclusively the coverage they receive revolves in some way around a new bunco crime being perpetrated among citizens. The origins and traditions of this small clan, the types of crimes they engage in, and some of the more prominent of their schemes can be helpful in insulating oneself against victimization.
Human trafficking has been entwined into the structure of governments, arms trade, drug trade, and even spreads as far as terrorism. For many years it has been a fact that the money that has been made by selling other humans to the highest bidder. It is also known that the organized crime operations generate one of the most profitable resources to the organization. These organizations use this money for theirs or other’s crime and end up in the hands of drug lords. Drug lords, in order to promote their own business give money to support terrorist groups and activities. Security after September 11, 2001 has recognized human trafficking as a national and international security risk.
Throughout history, the swindler has financially plagued society. Whether it is the get rich quick scheme or the carnival worker’s impossible challenge, people have been cheated out of uncountable sums of money. In the 1920’s a man named Victor Ludsig, posing as a French official, sold the Eiffel Tower to a gullible scrap ironworker for $50,000. Even today con artists are thriving using the Internet to borrow from Peter to pay Paul. This is a scheme made famous by a crook so successful that his name now graces the age-old fraud, the Ponzi scheme. Webster’s Dictionary defines Ponzi Scheme as
Crime comes in different ways, shapes, and forms. From corruption to murder, the seriousness and blameworthiness varies from crime to crime. The most common factor of all crime is that it is illegal. The problem with prosecution is that some crimes can find loopholes around the rigidity of the laws created. This is the hardest for white collar crimes. With so many types of white collar crimes, it is hard to understand where it belongs on the scale on seriousness and blameworthiness and how to prosecute. With white collar crimes, they are most commonly seen as “victimless” or “paper” crimes, since they do not involve physical harm to the people included. With so many types available to analyze, the purpose of this paper is to focus on bribery, perjury, and fraud. When it comes to white collar crimes, or any crime for that matter, we do not only need to focus on what causes it and society’s reaction to it. We need to look into prevention of it and being able to stop it before it even starts.
Human trafficking, the illegal trade or purchasing of a human, is a constant issue occurring all around the world. This event is taken place in many different areas with males and females of all ages. It became a known epidemic to the world around the 90's. Traffickers, as they are called, abuse unseen boarders, broadband communication, and economic and political disturbance along with a mass of migrating persons. By seeking out the more vulnerable, they have created a successful business as well as a tragic epidemic in today. Usually, documents were available to track trafficking in persons. However, as times are changing there is an increase in hostility toward immigration due to rising mass movements of people which thus varies these records. There is ignorance about the true definition of typically used terms such as smuggling, trafficking, and illegal immigration which in turn causes a larger playing field for these traffickers and their targeted victims.
Identity theft is no new problem in our world. It has occurred for decades and only grows more popular with criminals. Due to our world’s expanding technology, identity theft is becoming easier to commit and harder to detect. Luckily as the criminals technology becomes more advanced, so does out justice system’s technology to help fight the crime. The number of criminals that engage in the fraud and thievery will only grow due to the lucrative nature of the crime, but also will the forces that are established to stop them. This white-collar crime will gain more attention and therefore more laws will be passed to protect the public from becoming victims. With the use of laws, task forces, and the education and awareness of the public, identity theft will be given more attention and focus to hopefully deter future threats from occurring.
In the article “Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun” Linda M. Hasselstrom, explains a series of events that prompt her to an important decision. It was a decision that changed her life. Hasselstrom is a respected writer who has written several books on based on personal, life experiences. In this particular article she gives examples of events that have occurred to her that forced her take a decision of carrying a gun. She explains that throughout her 10 recent years there were varies occasions where she saw herself in a dangerous situation. During those 10 years she constantly experienced situations where she saw she needed protection, and a simple self defense class wasn’t going to help. She became aware of her surroundings and eventually had experience on what to do in those types of dangerous situations. Although carrying a gun for her was something she needed when it came to protection, she also had to learn that it was a huge responsibility.
The runaway corruption in the country harms the business environment and causes collapse of various established institutions and industries.
According to estimates, more than 700,000 people are trafficked every year for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labour. They are transported across borders and sold into modern-day slavery. Over the past decade, trafficking in human beings has reached epidemic proportions. No country is immune. Clawson (2009) discusses how the search for work abroad has been fueled by economic disparity, high unemployment and disruption of traditional livelihoods. It recognizes neither boundaries nor borders. Consequently profits from trafficking feed into the casket of organized crime. Trafficking is fueled by other criminal activities such as document fraud, money laundering and migrant smuggling. Because trafficking cases are expansive in reach, they are among the most important matters. (Clawson 2009)
The term ‘organized crime’ encompasses such diverse phenomena as the whole illegal market, quasi-governmental criminal structures, corporate crime and state crime. This ambiguity is also the result of the fact that perpetrators of crimes from the same organization may include members of any occupational group, corrupt business executives, members of the professions, public officials, politicians, in addition obviously to the conventional racketeer element (Hagan 1983:56). Therefore, it has become commonplace to observe that there is no uniform understanding of organised crime, not to speak of a generally accepted definition (Levi, 1998). Within the international literature on organized crime are there different scientific approaches that often disclose single facets (economic, cultural, political, etc.) of this phenomenon, with the result that ‘as many descriptions as there are authors’ (Albanese, 1985: 4). The multidisciplinary dimension has not necessarily ensured a high level of theoretical penetration of the objects of study. Despite recent advances, the theoretical literature on organized crime remains to be fairly thin and fragmented. In describing the object of study, one should speak about a number of different empirical phenomena, which are examined in a rather loose conceptual context. Not all approaches contain a clearly formulated conception of ‘organised crime’, being it as a formal definition or as a less restrictive outline. Often enough, a conceptualization of ‘organised crime’ is only implicitly made, at times merely taking the form of vague associations. Secondly, in some cases it seemed difficult to distinguish between claims co...
“Stolen people, stolen dream” is the brutality faced by numerous, vulnerable, gullible children in the black market around the world even in the admirable United States. Trafficking of children is the modern day slavery, the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. More than ever, it has become a lucrative method that is trending in the underground economy. A pimp can profit up to $150,000 per children from age 4-12 every year, as reported by the UNICEF. Also, according to the International Labor Organization statistics, “There are 20.9 million victim of human trafficking globally, with hundreds of thousands in the United
With the world changing and advancing with technology, criminal organizations are taking advantage of new opportunities. The advancement of travel, ease of communication, and an increase in demand, has all contributed to the globalization of crime. Every nation has been affected by the globalization of crime and the problem continues to grow.
Fraud in a very general term is the crime of deceiving a person in order to get them to give up something in value, usually money and usually to the criminal himself or a group of criminals. This paper will be discussing cybercrime fraud, specifically cybercrime auto fraud, the type of scams associated with cybercrime auto fraud, the criminal profile of a cybercriminal fraud, law enforcement initiatives to combat this type of fraud and the penalties that go along with committing this type of fraud.
Human trafficking is defined in the Trafficking Protocol as “the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or force” (Human Trafficking, 2015). Trafficking can be broken down into core elements such as action, means, or purpose. The action of trafficking, which mean the recruitment, transportation, or the transfer of persons. “The means of trafficking includes use of force, deception, coercion, abuse or power or position of vulnerability” (Human Trafficking, 2015). The purpose of trafficking, which always exploitation. It has become very hard to stop and even find the victims of this organized crime because victims are most of the time brain washed and deceived. Over the years, the consistent