SCAMSTERS INC.

We just know one kind of terrorist who hurts our country, there is one more kind of terrorist, like Shameema Banu, who hurt our country that taxpayers don’t know. Shameema Banu, a Indian citizen, comes to Cook County Hospital with a tourist visa, gets a major heart surgery, costing the tax payers thousands of dollars, fills her suit case filled with medicine from the Cook County Hospital pharmacy, that can last for one year and leaves. She did not even have the decency to say thank you to the tax payers and Cook County Hospital. The tax payers would not have known this, as she told me she cooked up all the papers, and had contacts to erase her name from the record before she left. She did it again, but this time, she came to USA sponsored, by her brother Dr. Mohamed Rehman, who is presently living , at 713 corner stone lane, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, Phone No. 610 527 9198, whose household income per year is $350,000 to $400,000. Her brother after she came to this country dumped her on the tax payers to support her medical bills. This time, she told me that Cook County Hospital is for poor people so she got her heart surgery done in University of Chicago Hospital after giving all the medical records that she had from Cook County hospital. Again the tax payers paid the bill.The Edward hospital of Naperville, charged the tax payers for services in and out of hospitals several times. I was surprised, to see a care taker in her house, doing household chores, like cleaning her kitchen, she joked with me telling me, only rich people like her
can a have care taker. But later I found that the taxpayers were paying for the caretaker. When I told her,
this is not fair on her part, as the country is going through bad financial times, her answer, “the country will have a bad time for a long time, let me enjoy”. She tells me it is ignorant people like me who live in a one bed room apartment, which Shameema Banu calls a chicken house, don’t know how to get freebies and tax payers pay for the freebies.

By the time people like Shameema Banu are brought to justice to stop this type of terrorism, our children
will be paying their bills.

When Shameema Banu learned from her doctor in Bangalore, India, that she needed major heart surgery, it that will cost her a lot money, she told me she laughed and left the place. Next thing, she called her brother Dr. Mohamed Rehman, who was a resident at Cook County Hospital, to fix the papers, so that she can get
into Cook County Hospital, get the surgery done and disappear. She bought a first class ticket, according to her, came here as a tourist, got the surgery done, stayed in Cook County Hospital for 2 weeks. She knew
I was a poor person, she would call me, to stay with her at night, even though she knew I work 12 hours a
day, seven days a week. After she checked out of the hospital, she gave me papers, and told me that I
should go to Cook County Hospital at night and get the medicine. This was so hard on me, by the time I
went back home, it would be 1 am. When I could not take this I told her, why doesn’t she get medicine from another pharmacy in the day time, her answer was the quality in Cook County Hospital is good. When I asked who is paying the bills, she told me she has paid the bills from India. But then when I was standing in line at Cook County pharmacy, I got very angry and told the clerk, my sister has paid the money and I should not
be standing in line for such a long time. He told me that is not true and asked me about my sister and told
him every thing. I came and told this to my sister, she got nervous, and she left the next day. By this time
she had a suit case full of medicine from Cook County Hospital. At the airport when I told her what she has done is fraud and she will go to jail, she told me she knows how to take bribes and how to give bribes and
that she has bribed Cook County people to cook all kind of papers and no one will even know she was in Cook County.

Like to know about Shameema Banu:- A civil engineer from Bangalore India, she told me nothing moves
from her table till the contractors grease her palms to her satisfaction. Her office timing, according to her, starts at 11 am, the coffee time at 11 30 am, lunch at 1 pm, then 4 pm done for the day. According to her , bribe she takes she calls it consultancy fee, and she has bought real estate worth tens of thousands of
dollars. Her richness can be imagined, when her daughter living in Naperville asked her, to send the furniture that she grew with, which is not worth $10 in garage sale, she shipped the furniture from Bangalore to Naperville. The only gifts she gives to her little grand children is 24 carat gold jewels, the children are so young, I doubt if they even know what is gold. To hide herself from tax payers of this country, she lives in a posh condo in Naperville, and tells her son is paying the rent. She gives money to her son and then he
pays all her bills, so that the tax payers should not come to know it is her money. She take no less than six to eight suit cases every time she travels overseas, and spends lavishly. I am told her new house in India which she built is worth millions of dollars.

Shameema Banu now lives at 353 S. Whispering Hills, Apt A, Naperville IL 60540-5089, Phone number 630- 470-9666, enjoying her life and laughing on hard working people like you and me who are paying for hospital bills and her caretaker.


Thanking you,

Habib Wala
6909 N. Ridge, Apartment 1 D
Chicago IL 60645
Phone 312 523 5391

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There's no doubt that cyber security needs tightening up in India, with terrorists increasingly using technology to plan their activities. Moreover, online fraud cases are on the rise.
In a panel discussion - The Need for National Cyber Security Advisory Board - organised by Bangalore IT. Biz, speakers from different concerned quarters tried to throw some light on measures which can be used to curb these cyber activities.

Apparently, over 80 Indian banks do not have adequate security protection to their online account users. In such circumstances, fraudsters can easily get the access to the personal information of account holders.

These problems are due to the complexity of cybercrimes, and also non-cooperation from netizens, according to the panelists speaking on the topic of "ICT and National Security - with special focus on Cyber Security" on the first day of India's premier ICT event, BangaloreIT.biz. Panelists feel that there is a need to set up a National Cyber Security Advisory Board to tackle constantly increasing cyber crime.

Cyber Law College director Naavi Vijayashankar said, "Without the cooperation of netizens, a cybercrime-free surfing experience cannot be achieved; totally bug-free software will never be a reality as IT softwares always evolve. A supportive law, security practices at user and intermediary level and hi-tech policing can contain cybercrimes to some extent."

The country's first cyber police station of Karnataka often cannot nab the fraudsters even after tracing them. The superintendent of police for cybercrimes, B A Mahesh, said, "There are so many issues that come in the way to nab a culprit even after identifying. A novice named M Joseph duped several accountholders and swindled money from their accounts. I wonder how to contain IT pros and experts who make use of several hacking and privacy invading softwares that are available in the market."

Mahesh added, "Karnataka is the first state to have a full-fledged cyber police station, whose jurisdiction is entire state, and succeeded in taking action against those using cyber cafes to carry out unlawful activities. Cases of phishing reported to Karnataka police are on rise from only six in 2006 to seven in 2007 and 24 in 2008. Lack of cooperation and inability to understand the urgency to respond quickly are the problems from user's ending that are making cyber police helpless."

The Indian computer emergency response team director, Gulshan Rai, said, "Monitoring cyberspace has been becoming more and more complex as there are new technologies and usage patterns emerge every day. More smart devices, application simplicity and flexible infrastructures are some of the hurdles that come in the way to stop cyber crimes. More complex and target-oriented softwares are available for cyber criminals to carry on operations across the globe."

Gulshan Rai suggested all netizens should visit either UN site www.intgovforum.org or Indian site www.cert-in.org.in to freely download patches or malicious program elimination software free of cost. "Being a government organisation working closely with IT majors for safe surfing experience to netizens, this site provides up-to-date data and ways of securing your computers.

Source: itexaminer

After much delay, the Anti-Corruption wing of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday registered nine cases in connection with the multi-crore foodgrain scam.

The scam was related to the misuse of the foodgrain meant for the Below Poverty Line families during the Samajwadi Party rule between March 2004 and October 2005.

According to CBI sources, eight cases were lodged related to Ballia district involving eight chief development officers and four other PCS rank officers. The other case related to Lakhimpur Kheri in which 10 PCS rank officers and 90 others have been named.

The Ballia scam amounted to Rs 14 crore and Kheri to Rs 1.25 crore.

Source:The Indian Express

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has so far collected over Rs 3.5 crore through consent orders passed in the initial public offer (IPO) share allotment scam of 2006.

Sebi wholetime members T C Nair and M S Sahoo passed the 26th such consent order on October 31, asking Bansilal Mehta and Chimanlal Shah to remit Rs 4.26 lakh. Mehta and Shah “were alleged financiers to key operators for cornering shares in the IPO of IDFC”, the order said. The regulator had earlier prohibited them from buying, selling and dealing in securities. So far, the regulator has settled 128 cases through consent orders.

A consent order is a system of settling disputes in capital markets through an agreement between a regulator and an accused through a penalty or a fine. Earlier this month, Sebi had asked one of the alleged financiers and key operators in the IPO scam, Kelan Atulbhai Doshi, to pay the disgorgement amount of Rs 2.5 crore in addition to Rs 5 lakh as settlement charges.

This was also the highest penalty that Sebi has ever asked anyone to pay up among the IPO scam consent orders. Sebi had signed the first set of consent orders in June with members of the Dadia family, who were identified as errant financiers in the IPO scam.

The amount collected gets deposited into the Consolidated Fund of India and does not get ploughed back to the capital market. Entities that request for a consent order have to furnish a written waiver, assuring not to take any legal proceedings against Sebi concerning any of the issues covered by the consent order. The recent past has been witness to a few instances where the Sebi order has been turned down by the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT).

The IPO share allotment scam goes back to 2006, when Sebi had barred various individuals and entities from dealing in the securities market directly or indirectly until further directions. A Sebi-mandated committee headed by Justice Wadhwa, appointed to work out the modalities of compensating investors who were cheated in the IPO scam, had suggested that they be compensated by monetary terms. It had worked out a compensation of Rs 92 crore for the investors, who had applied for shares in the retail category in many IPOs, which were allegedly manipulated by the scamsters.

The money was to be collected partly by selling the frozen shares of the entities implicated in the scam, an amount estimated to be between Rs 60 crore and Rs 90 crore. The implicated individuals and entities are Roopalben Panchal, Karvy Stock Broking, Magnum Equity Services, Deep Stockbroking, Anagram Securities, Jhaveri Securities and Indiabulls Securities, among others.

Further, entities like HDFC Bank, IDBI Bank, Centurion Bank of Punjab, Motilal Oswal Securities and Jhaveri Securities were barred from opening fresh demat accounts for failing to adhere to Know-Your-Client (KYC) norms.

Source: Business Standard

The state education department had in 2003 ordered all district education officers (DEOs) to conduct verification drives on degrees
taken from states other than Gujarat. The DEOs completed the verification and gave their report to concerbed departments, but five years down the line, these reports are yet to be compiled and submitted to the government.

The result: No punitive action on the guilty and the trade of fake degrees continues to thrive.

Recently, one such scam came to light when on October 25 a case of forgery was "almost reported" to the Vastrapur police. In this case, an agent lured a student into getting admission in Gujarat colleges on the basis of fake marksheet.

Police complaint was not filed in this case as the accused paid back the money to the student he had cheated. According to Vastrapur police station officials, an admission counsellor having office at Moonlight Complex, near Gurukul, was an expert in giving class X and XII certificates to students aspiring to get admission in science stream courses. He also helped in some cases with college degrees.

Here the aspirant paid Rs 70,000 for a fake degree. The admission counsellor was thrashed. He then repaid the money to the student and saved himself from being jailed.

The incident has once again raised questions on the mechanism of checking degrees and genuine qualifications of teachers in the state.

In 2003, after 213 teachers were found with fake degrees, the department identified various universities listed as having dubious credentials. The DEOs were asked to make a trip to specific states and universities with a list of doubtful cases and degrees and conduct a verification process.DEO of Vadodara, RK Patel, said, "In 2003 I had visited a few universities in Uttar Pradesh. It was a three-day visit and we had taken the degree certificates for their verification. All the DEOs had submitted their report soon after but I am not aware if any further action has been taken after that."

Also, degree certificates that appeared fake and were from univerisities within the state were also checked.

SCAMS FROM THE PAST

* In 2003, the fake degree scam was unearthed when BEd degrees of 17 teachers appointed in PanchmahalS were scrutinised by district education officer (DEO) of Godhra, VJ Shah. Since the DEO had a doubt he sent an official to verify the authenticity of these degrees and all turned out to be fake.

* The education department then sent letters to all DEOs to scrutinize all BEd degrees from Bundelkhand University. From the applications that the education department had received that year, 3,500 were from states other than Gujarat which included 213 from Bundelkhand University alone.

* Investigations revealed that degrees of Bundelkhand University in Jhansi were procured at a price ranging between Rs 1.5 and Rs 2 lakh.

* In April 2004, close to 1,700 teachers with degrees from other states were appointed by the education department in grant-in-aid schools. Twenty-one of these teachers were found with bogus degrees who were relieved from duty with immediate effect.

* In April 2008, the state education department recovered almost Rs 2.6 crore from 213 teachers, found to have fake degrees. The recovery was of salaries that these teachers had been paid. These teachers had put in service of one to seven years.

Source:TOI

A Newsmax investigation of Obama/Biden campaign contributors, undertaken in conjunction with a private investigative firm headed by a former CIA operations officer, has identified 118 donors who appear to lack U.S. citizenship.

Some of these “red flag” donors work for foreign governments; others have made public statements declaring that they are citizens of Cameroun, Nigeria, Pakistan, Canada, and other countries.

A Newsmax sampling of about 3,400 donors also found hundreds more who showed “yellow flags” such as not having used a Social Security number or a known U.S. address. Most U.S.-born citizens are issued Social Security numbers at birth or by the time they enter kindergarten.

Under federal law, only U.S. citizens or permanent residents may donate to federal political campaigns. It is illegal for the campaigns to accept money knowingly from foreign donors.

The McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill of 2002 placed new restrictions on political fundraising after the scandals of 1996, when the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign was exposed for having taken millions of dollars of unregulated soft money from donors with ties to Chinese military intelligence.

But even with the new laws, it remains very difficult to identify with any precision foreign money if a campaign itself does not cooperate with the Federal Election Commission and perform its own due diligence.

Until very recently, the Obama campaign had no safeguards in its online fundraising Web site designed to weed out foreign donors. Instead, its operations appeared to be designed specifically to enhance the flow of illegal money.

The Newsmax investigation focused only on donors whose names the Obama campaign disclosed, which are available to public scrutiny through the Federal Election Commission Web site.

In addition to the donations the campaign has disclosed, however, it has taken an unprecedented $218 million from donors whose names it is keeping secret, according to FEC spokesman Robert Biersack.

That money came from individuals who in theory never passed the threshold of $200, the limit the FEC set for public disclosure of a donor’s name and place of residence, so there is no way of knowing how much foreign money could be included in that amount.

For example, hidden away amidst the unprecedented $150 million Obama claims to have raised from individual donors in September was more than $42 million raised from secret donors. These donations appear in the records as a single entry under the heading, “Donors, Unitemized.”

Newsmax retained the services of former CIA operations officer Frederick W. Rustmann Jr. and a team of international forensic accounting experts to comb through Obama’s donor list to identify those who apparently aren’t U.S. citizens or residents. Rustmann, a 24 year veteran field officer, operates CTC International Group Ltd., a West Palm Beach, Fla., firm that provides business intelligence services and analysis.

Using sophisticated Internet search tools, fee-based data bases, and other public records, CTC attempted to identify Social Security numbers and U.S. addresses connected to the Obama donors. Most of these donors gave obvious overseas addresses when they made their donations, but the Obama campaign had no security screen to detect them.

“Hillary and McCain demanded proof of citizenship of all their donors,” Rustmann said. “Obama did not, so he benefitted by receiving an enormous amount of money from foreign donors who wanted to influence the U.S. election process.”

Rustmann and his investigative team expressed “high suspicions” that 118 donors flagged as “red” were not U.S. citizens.

“That’s all we can say for certain, because it’s difficult to prove citizenship with no database that lists citizens,” Rustmann said.

Typical is Victor A. of Lagos, Nigeria, who gave $500 to the campaign in May. In the FEC database, his address is listed as Ikoyi, NA. But a closer look at the actual itemized receipts filed by the campaign shows that he declared his address as 9e Awori Street Dolphin Estate, Lagos, Nigeria.

That apparently slipped by the eagle eyes of the Obama campaign’s finance team.

A survey of the Obama donor base returns 8,794 donations from individuals who gave their state as “NA.” They included donors from Bangalore, India; London; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Lagos, Nigeria; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Thousands more gave state abbreviations that, combined with the city addresses they listed, clearly referred to foreign countries. Examples include IT (Italy), FR (France), GR (Greece), NZ (New Zealand), JP (Japan), GA (Gaza).

Another 2,372 donors gave their state of residence as “ZZ,” with cities including Moscow, Barcelona, Beirut, London, Lausanne, Singapore, Hagatna, Gunma-Ken, Buelach, Shanghai, Geneva, Prague, Aichi-Gun, Kiev, Hong Kong, and others.

The Obama campaign claims that these donors with overseas addresses are Americans living abroad, but there is no way of knowing that for certain because the campaign has not systematically required proof of citizenship from overseas donors.

The pace of foreign donations and other questionable fundraising practices has increased during the past few weeks, even as Obama campaign spokesmen say they have closed loopholes on their Web site and changed the credit-card authorization procedures that have allowed such donations. The Federal Election Commission had flagged 16,639 potential foreign donations as of Oct. 21 that brought in $5,249,263.96 to the campaign.

Take the case of Jo Jacquet, who gave $23,065 to Obama in 23 separate contributions last month. CTC found three people with variations of the name “Jo Anna Jacquet” who had U.S. addresses and Social Security numbers. It is not clear whether this specific Obama donor is a U.S. citizen.

“Jo Jacquet” made all of her contributions on two days, alternating between $5 and $2,300 charges to a credit card.

On all of the donations, she gave her employer as “DFDFGDFG,” and her profession as “DFGDFGDFGHFGH.” None of this attracted the suspicions of the Obama campaign or of Chase Paymentech, the company that processes the Obama campaign’s credit card donations.

The FEC requested that the Obama campaign re-attribute or re-designate all of the money from “Jo Jacquet” that went beyond the $4,600 limit but did not require that it be refunded. Under campaign finance rules, the campaign can shift this money into the “Obama Victory” account, a joint fundraising committee with much higher individual limits that it operates with the Democratic National Committee.

One apparent reason for the unusual number of foreign donors who may not hold U.S. citizenship is the fact the Obama campaign turned off the security features most merchants demand for customers when doing online transactions, such as verifying the card number against the cardholder’s name and billing address.

Another major loophole is the apparent widespread use of gift cards, which notoriously have been used for money-laundering purposes, especially in places such as Russia and Ukraine, industry security analysts tell Newsmax.

Newsmax asked James Wester, a spokesman for Chase Paymentech, who was responsible for taking the unusual step of deactivating the Address Verification Service recommended by VISA USA on the Obama Web site. Such security features can be deactivated by the processing company, or at the request of the merchant, in this case, Obama for America.

Wester said that Paymentech was “not going to be issuing a statement at this time.”

VISA USA has a series of verification tools it recommends to online merchants to prevent online credit card fraud and to guarantee the security of personal credit-card information.

“Fraudsters have been known to test credit card numbers by making online donations to charitable organizations,” a credit-card industry insider told Newsmax, on condition of anonymity.

In fact, by operating as a “high-risk merchant,” the Obama campaign could put both its donors and Chase Paymentech at risk, he said.

“A legitimate online merchant or charity would call in the Secret Service or the FBI” if it saw the high fraud rates that have appeared on the Obama campaign Web site.

“If they are not taking basic security safeguards to prevent such obvious online fraud as you have found, then how can any donor have confidence that they will protect credit card information? But if cash flow is the name of the game, it doesn’t matter as long as they get the money up-front and get the job done. They can pay the fines later,” he added.

Following are a few of the individuals the Newsmax/CTC International investigation found of overseas donors. To demonstrate its compliance with FEC regulations, the Obama campaign should request proof that these individuals are, indeed, U.S. citizens;
# Nasser Z. of 187 Blvd Bineau in Paris-France, “NA,” made seven donations totaling $785. CTC found no record indicating U.S. citizenship. But on Nasser’s personal blog, he states that he is of Algerian origin and lives between Paris and Dubai. He also notes that he is not registered to vote in the United States and hints that he may be an adviser to the Obama campaign on Arab relations.
# Salem H. gave $200 to the campaign in March 2008, listing a London address. He said he worked as a salesman for “Anaka,” No information was found either on Haffar or his company indicating U.S. citizenship.
# Essomba H. made 11 donations totaling $265. Essomba gave an address in Lyon, “NA,” and said he was unemployed but working for “Association,” the French equivalent of a community organizer. CTC found that Essomba actually worked for PDT Associates Afrikespace et Oyenga, which showed him as living in Lyon, France. His personal blog states, "I'm a Cameroonian living in France” and notes that he is not registered to vote.
# Gedewon (or Gideon) G. made 32 donations totaling $1,095. Although he lists his employer as “Filtom Design Services” and his residence as Toronto, Canada, CTC could find no company with that name. Gedewon frequently posts blogs to a Web site for expatriate Eritreans, where he often promotes Obama.
# Mahamane M. gave $500 to the campaign and listed his address as Niamey, the capitol of the central African state of Niger. He listed his occupation as managing director of C.N.U.T. Niger. The Public Transport Users Council, CNUT is affiliated with the prime minister’s office. In an interview, Mahamane said he is particularly interested in developing transportation resources that will help bring Niger’s extensive uranium resources to market.
# Gilles M. lives in Zurich and claims to be “founder and senior consultant” of 4?ME (sic) Image Consulting. Gilles made three donations to the campaign for a total of $240.39. The campaign found him suspicious enough to return one of them in July, but kept the rest. Under FEC rules, that will bring Gilles back into the shadows, since his aggregate contributions now total less than $200.
# Stamen S. of Sofia, Bulgaria, lists his profession as “Mployer” and his employer as "Employer." He has made ten donations totaling $170. CTC found no record indicating U.S. citizenship.
# Francis B. . of La Creche, France, made three donations totaling $200. He is reported as being a medicine physician at Hospital-Niort and is listed. CTC found no verifiable record of U.S. citizenship.
# Pedro M.,. who said he was a salesman for Intermundo in Prague, made two donations for a total of $900. CTC found no verifiable record indicating U.S. citizenship.
# Sandeep M., . an investment manager at Clariden Leu, Kuesnacht, in Zurich, Switzerland, gave the maximum $2,300 allowed per election. CTC found no verifiable record indicating U.S. citizenship.
# Marissa M., . a nurse living in Guatemala City, gave eight $25 donations. CTC found no verifiable record indicating U.S. citizenship.
# Somine L. . declared that she worked at the French Ministry of Culture in Paris, and donated $100. CTC found no verifiable record indicating U.S. citizenship.

Although CTC had no way of accurately evaluating the real amount of foreign donations based on the survey they did for Newsmax, Rustmann said he believe that the anecdotal evidence was clear.

“In my opinion, from what I have seen here, millions of dollars came from illegal donations, because the Obama campaign did little to vet the donors,” Rustmann said.

An earlier Newsmax estimate, based on the unusual occurrence of unrounded contributions, which fundraising experts attributed to foreign currency donations, concluded that as much as $63 million could have come from foreign sources.

A veteran investigator with the Criminal Investigative Division of the U.S. Secret Service told Newsmax on Monday that most of the donor fraud Newsmax has identified could fly under the radar of federal investigators, unless the feds received a complaint from a victim of identify fraud.

Identify fraud certainly appeared to be the case when it came to the $174,800 donated in September in the name of Manchester, Mo., resident, Mary T. Biskup. A retired insurance manager, Biksup told The Washington Post that she never gave the money to the Obama campaign, and had checked her credit-card statements and couldn’t find any trace of a charge to her account.

“We're not out a penny," Biskup said. "I gather that someone has hacked into something using other people's credit cards and putting my name on it."

The credit-card industry often covers up identify fraud, such as apparently occurred with Biskup. Credit-card companies would rather swallow losses and chargebacks than admit to consumers that criminals have cracked their security systems, insiders tell Newsmax. (

Source: MacedoniaOnline

An inquiry conducted by a team of auditors appointed by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has unearthed a whopping Rs 15.37 crore scam in mid-day meal scheme in the state.

The team had carried out the inquiry in five districts — Ranchi, Chaibasa, Daltonganj, Gumla, Jamshedpur — between December 2007 and March 2008 and found that money was misappropriated by showing expenditure incurred in mid-day meals of those students who did not figure in records of the schools in these districts.

As per the scheme, cooked food is served free of cost to students. Both the Centre and the state Government contribute towards the expenditure incurred. The auditors found that in these five districts, false records of students were maintained.

Joint Secretary (HRD) J Toppo said a cell was being constituted to monitor implementation of the scheme.

Source: The Indian Express