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Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion [1] of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, qualification or credentials they do not possess; a charlatan or snake oil salesman". [ 2 ]
The scam then becomes an advance-fee fraud or a check fraud. A wide variety of reasons can be offered for the trickster's lack of cash, but rather than just borrow the money from the victim (advance fee fraud), the con-artist normally declares that they have checks which the victim can cash on their behalf and remit the money via a non ...
Fraud and financial crime patterns have become more digital and faster changing, leveraging the underlying characteristics of the underlying digital payments infrastructures. This caused traditional rule based systems to be ineffective and led the way to machine learning and AI-based fraud detection techniques.
Pharmaceutical fraud is when pharmaceutical companies engage in illegal, fraudulent activities to the detriment of patients and/or insurers. Examples include counterfeit drugs that do not contain the active ingredient, false claims in packaging and marketing, suppression of negative information regarding the efficacy or safety of the drug, and violating pricing regulations.
Ruth Beymer Drown (October 21, 1891 – March 13, 1965) [1] born in Colorado was an American alternative medicine practitioner, chiropractor and proponent of radionics.She invented radio devices which she claimed could cure any patient in the world, just from blood-sampling.
It was a pre-sentence hearing for defendant Herb Kimble, the mastermind of a long-running, widespread Medicare fraud scheme that cheated the federal government out of $1 billion in fraudulent ...
Zholia Alemi (born 1962) is a convicted fraudster who posed as a doctor for over twenty years in the United Kingdom. In February 2023 she was convicted of defrauding the National Health Service (NHS) of more than £1 million and sentenced to seven years in prison.
On January 7, 2010 Reuben agreed to plead guilty to one count of health care fraud. Prosecutors alleged that Reuben obtained thousands of dollars in grants for research that he never performed. [9] He formally pleaded guilty on February 21, 2010 before Judge Michael Ponsor. On May 24, Ponsor sentenced him to six months in prison, followed by ...