Posted by: AuthBridge
in Identity theft on Aug 31, 2010
The Identity Theft Crisis
There is a price to pay for fame and wealth. Your name may be Mukesh Ambani or Amartya Sen but it will get you no respect from a hacker and an identity thief. In this online age many famous, rich and well-known people are not masters of their domain. The overly used, ‘I was misquoted’ has now become ‘That’s not me.’
Much of the credit for India’s current economic performance - domestically and internationally – can be laid at the door of our highly educated and skilled workforce. This in turn is based on the extremely competitive and rapidly rising quality of higher education.
HR managers beware!
As if the situation is not bad enough. What with trying to find the right employee to fill the position; the incessant demands and issues of employees - recruitment staffs have to worry about ‘genuinely’ fake degrees and certificates.
Posted by: AuthBridge
in Workplace security on Jul 13, 2010
The 2009 scam by a large IT company, in essence, was an inflation of the revenue and profit figures of the company by its promoters. They tried to make the company look better than it was. We have a similar story today that also has its origins in 2009.
Posted by: AuthBridge
in Workplace security on Jun 22, 2010
Police in New Delhi announced that they had broken up the activities of a gang of hospital security guards. The guards moonlighted as criminals after they removed their uniforms. These ‘guards’ are suspected of murdering a man while robbing him. They are suspected of being involved in numerous other (and sometimes violent) crimes.
Posted by: AuthBridge
in Employee fraud on Jun 07, 2010
Embezzle: to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as money or property entrusted to one's care.
Every so often a case of embezzlement is reported in the media. The latest involves a well-known and large personal care products company and one of its senior employees - a deputy general manager. The employee is now in custody for supposedly ordering gold coins worth 25 crore rupees as part of the company’s incentive programme. He, however, kept them for himself. In acquiring these coins the fraudster forged signatures, created false purchase orders and emails.
Google for ‘essay writing service’ and you will get 2,440,000 results in 0.20 seconds! The leading lines for the services on offer are as revealing in the appeal they make to prospective customers.
“MA and PhD writers from xyz-essay.com will help you with essay writing at any academic level and any subject.” “100% original, quality custom essay writing service. ... See what makes abc-essays.com the essay writing service you can trust with all of your custom ...”
“Custom essay writing service you can fully rely on. Cheap academic assistance - FREE plagiarism report included!”
Plenty of people all around the world are making tons of money from young students who are loathe putting in the effort themselves. The sheer number of sites offering their ‘writing services’ is testament to the size of the industry.
Posted by: AuthBridge
in Screening on Jun 03, 2010
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Among other things, doctors as a profession and Healthcare as an industry share a common need – a good reputation. For doctors their good name is as important as their medical skills and abilities. For hospitals, an excellent reputation is as desirable as modern equipment and the best facilities.
“A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one”….. Lord Jeffery
When the good name is brought into disrepute it is the hardest of tasks to remedy. That is precisely the predicament in which Delhi hospitals find themselves.
In the background screening business there is a saying, ‘if it is too good, it can’t be true.’ Adam Wheeler was doing just fine till he got ahead of himself and overstated his achievements and grades. He would have got away Scot free if he was just content to acquire a Harvard degree.
The 23 year-old got into Harvard University on the basis of his perfect (but fake) high school grades and SAT scores. He did not stop there. He plagiarized writings and research to win awards, prizes and grants. This ‘A’ student was finally outed when a professor noted that Wheeler's Fulbright and Rhodes scholarship applications claimed straight A's, were full of "numerous books he co-authored, lectures he had given and courses he had taught." Too much. Too good.
The issue is interesting but there are, however, ominous facets to this story. Cases of students exaggerating their academic records are rising. Then there is the tarnishing of the venerable and good name of three hundred and seventy-four year old Harvard.
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in Screening on May 14, 2010
It is a much stated truism that ‘nothing is sacred.’ However, it still comes as a shock to learn just how low people will stoop to make a buck – or even plenty of bucks.
This piece is motivated by several recent news reports of people practicing medicine when they have absolutely no qualifications or training. These unqualified, untrained and unscrupulous persons are literally playing with people’s lives.
One sort of assumed that these criminal ‘quacks’ were restricted to plying their unlicensed and illegal trade in the shady backstreets of our towns and cities. No more it seems. For these dangerous practitioners of medicine in their long white coats are striding the bright and shiny corridors of private hospitals.
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