Posted on March 29th, 2010 by John
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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 [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2010 by John
(03-16) 17:27 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A judge has awarded a San Francisco attorney $7,000 in damages in a rare trial under California’s anti-spam law – $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 [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2010 by John
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 [...]
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Filed under: SOCIAL MEDIA
Posted on March 16th, 2010 by John
Man abused schoolgirls he met online | 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 [...]
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Filed under: SAFETY & SECURITY 4 HOME & FAMILY, SOCIAL MEDIA
Posted on March 11th, 2010 by John
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 [...]
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Filed under: HEADLINES, SCAMS AND SCHEMES
