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		<title>Securities Commission Release: Guidance on boundary between financial planning and advice</title>
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29 March 2010
News release
Guidance on boundary between financial planning and advice
The Securities Commission has issued guidance for the financial  advice sector on the boundary between financial a planning service and  financial advice.  This will help advisers prepare to meet the  requirements of the Financial Advisers Act when it comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S.F. lawyer awarded $7,000 from e-mail spammer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(03-16) 17:27 PDT SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; A judge has awarded a San Francisco attorney $7,000 in damages in a rare  trial under California&#8217;s anti-spam law &#8211; $1,000 for each unsolicited,  misleading commercial e-mail he received.

Daniel Balsam, who started suing spammers even before he graduated from law school in 2008, filed suit against Trancos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Get Banned By Twitter &#124; Business on Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the early days of Twitter you could do anything and get away with it. Well, not anymore. Twitter has gotten pretty aggressive about certain techniques to get large number of followers.
I talked to consulting client of mine that bought a course on twitter (not mine). And his twitter account was suspended permanently.
So I asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAKE THE DIFFERENCE FOR YOUR CHILD’S SAFETY! « The Desk of the Renaissance Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Man  abused schoolgirls he met online &#124; Stuff.co.nz
An online predator used social networking site Bebo to prey on  schoolgirls, sexually abusing two he befriended through the internet.
Police said the pool of potential victims was growing by the day as  more children turned to social networking sites and showed the ease with  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phony website targets Madoff fraud victims &#8211; From the Regulators &#8211; News Investment Executive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission says that a  deceptive website is targeting the victims of the Madoff fraud.
The  SEC reports that a website, falsely claiming to have recovered $1.3  billion in funds hidden by convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, is now  targeting the scheme’s original victims with false promises of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online banking fraud surges by 14 percent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Online banking fraud surged by 14 percent in 2009,  according to the UK  Cards Association.
Research by the financial organisation revealed that the losses from  online banking fraud totalled £59.7m in 2009. It said    the increase was due to criminals using malware to target online  banking customers rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adviser guilty of cutting corners &#124; Stuff.co.nz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unemployed Timaru financial adviser Neville Cant has been found  guilty of two charges under the Securities Act.
Cant had pleaded not guilty to offering and allotting securities  related to the Gables Proportionate Ownership Scheme to members of the  public without a prospectus or an offerer&#8217;s statement. Two companies of  which he is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli art scam operating in Christchurch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art lovers are being warned not to be fooled by two Israeli tourists  selling watercolours door-to-door in Christchurch for $250.
The paintings are made in China and available via the internet for a  fraction of this price, police warn.
Lyttelton detective Michael Ford said the man and woman arrived in  the country on tourist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Rob Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, do you have a Twitter account? Have you ever noticed those  messages in which people tell you where they are? Pretty annoying, eh.  Well, they&#8217;re actually also potentially pretty dangerous. We&#8217;re about to  tell you why.
Don&#8217;t get us wrong, we love the whole location-aware thing. The  information is very interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook, Twitter offer crims rich pickings &#124; Stuff.co.nz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Identity crime is on the rise as criminals become cyber savvy and  fish around on social networking sites for personal information, experts  say.
Already the cost of identity crime  is put at up to $200 million a  year in New Zealand. Facebook, Bebo and Twitter continue to gain  popularity but having [...]]]></description>
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