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Marketing fraud scheme results in 560 arrests; $1billion in losses More than 560 people have been arrested in an international investigation of mass-marketing fraud schemes that have victimized more than 2.8 million people, the U.S. Justice Department said. Losses exceeded …

Fraud Roundup

Marketing fraud scheme results in 560 arrests; $1 billion in losses More than 560 people have been arrested in an international investigation of mass-marketing fraud schemes that have victimized more than 2.8 million people, the U.S. Justice Department said. Losses …

World Cup Starts in Germany

5:00 p.m. on a Friday is usually associated with “TGIF” as the weekend begins. However, for much of the world this Friday at 5:00 p.m. (local time) it marks the beginning of a very special sporting event – the quadrennial …

World Cup: Most heavily insured sporting event starts in Germany

For the majority of Americans, June 9 is a Friday between June 8 and June 10. But for the rest of the world, that day marks the debut of a month-long football festival — not the kind played in the …

Marketing Fraud Scheme Results in 560 Arrests; $1B in Losses

More than 560 people have been arrested in an international investigation of mass-marketing fraud schemes that have victimized more than 2.8 million people in the United States, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Losses exceeded $1 billion in scams that included …

Aon Issues 2006 Political & Economic Risk Map

“United States-based companies with business interests abroad will not be trading in a safer world in 2006,” according to Aon’s newly published annual global business risk analysis represented in its 2006 Political & Economic Risk Map. Aon said the “map …

TS Beta Threatens Central America

Tropical storm Beta, the 23rd named storm of the current season, is churning the waters of the Caribbean off the coast of Nicaragua. According to the latest bulletin from Miami’s National Hurricane Center, Beta is moving slowly north/northwest at about …

TS Stan Ravages Central America; 230 Reported Dead

Tropical Storm Stan has brought devastation to large parts of El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Southern Mexico, Costa Rica and Honduras. 120 people are reported to have died in Guatemala, over half of the 230 fatalities reported so far. Most of …

INSURERS SEE CAFTA AS IMPORTANT STEP:

Congress took an important step toward opening the world’s insurance markets when it approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the American Insurance Association said. “Costa Rica, one of the nation’s that will participate in CAFTA, has one of …

News Briefs

National Poll Reveals Americans’ Views on Aging: A poll by the MetLife Mature Market Institute conducted by Zogby International shows that 60 percent of Americans believe “old” is age 71 and over, but that 65 percent also wish they were …