[LINK] Financial Literacy, Banking and Identity Conference

[Rick Welykochy]

--- Howard Lowndes <lannet at lannet.com.au> wrote:

> "Gist for the mill" is a phrase that springs to mind...

Not pith. A source of profit, as in "Grist for the mill" perhaps ...

> Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> > In the car today, I heard a report of several people being charged with 
> > fraud and 3 being deported.....
> > 
> > ..the report mentioned the defrauding of banks, forgery of medicare 
> > cards, identity theft and face recognition...
> > 
> > From: 
> >
>
<http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/recent_media_unit_information?sq_content_src=aHR0cDovL2N1c3RvbXNjcmlwdHMucG9saWNlLm5zdy5nb3YuYXUvbmV3cy9kZXRhaWxzX21lZGlhLnBocD9NZWRpYUlEPTcwNDI%3D>
> 
> > 
> > 
> >> One of Australia’s largest identity crime syndicates dismantled
> >>
> >>  11 July 2006
> >>
> >>  A multi-agency Australian task force has dismantled one of the 
> >> country’s largest identity crime syndicates following a six-month 
> >> operation in NSW.
> >>
> >> Over the past two months, Identity Crime Task Force (ICTF) 
> >> investigators from five Federal and State law enforcement agencies 
> >> have arrested 13 people.
> >>
> >> As part of ‘Operation Hickey’, police have laid 230 charges against 
> >> nine men and one woman, aged between 20 and 41 years.
> >>
> >> Two other men arrested during the operation were later deported to 
> >> Malaysia, while another man was released pending further inquiries.
> >>
> >> Operation Hickey was set up in January this year to investigate the 
> >> manufacture of high quality counterfeit documents, including Medicare 
> >> cards, passports, bank cards and driver’s licences.
> >>
> >> The total cost of the fraud is yet to be determined, but it is 
> >> estimated to run into millions of dollars.
> >>
> >> It has been alleged that people within the syndicate assumed the 
> >> identity of individuals and companies as well as created false 
> >> identities which were allegedly used to obtain money from a number of 
> >> financial institutions.
> >>
> >> The Identity Crime Task Force comprises investigators from Australian 
> >> Federal Police, NSW Police, the Australian Crime Commission, NSW Crime 
> >> Commission and Australian Customs Service.
> >>
> >> The ICTF is hosted by the Australian Federal Police at the AFP Sydney 
> >> Headquarters.
> >>
> >> Note: A display of the falsified documents will be available at a 
> >> press conference being held at 2pm, TODAY, at the AFP Sydney 
> >> Headquarters, 110 Goulburn St, Sydney, NSW.
> > 
> > 
> > Marghanita
> > 
> > Jan Whitaker wrote:
> >> Forwarded on behalf of Supriya Singh. Note it is still open for paper 
> >> submissions if you're interested in that.
> >> Jan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Financial Literacy, Banking and Identity Conference
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 25th and 26th October 2006
> >>>
> >>> RMIT University, Melbourne
> >>>
> >>> The goals of this conference are to explore the social, legal and 
> >>> cultural implications of money relationships and the impact of the 
> >>> Internet on these relationships and on banking generally. Papers are 
> >>> invited on all aspects of research, development, policy and 
> >>> application in the areas of financial literacy, banking and identity.
> >>>
> >>> The conference will be a rare opportunity for the finance and banking 
> >>> sector, law, academia, government bodies and community organisations 
> >>> to hear from each other and to engage in conversation.
> >>>
> >>> Refereed and non-refereed papers are due by 28 July. Please email 
> >>> papers to Lillian Lowe at 
> >>> <mailto:lillian.lowe at rmit.edu.au>lillian.lowe at rmit.edu.au. For more 
> >>> information please see 
> >>> <http://www.rmit.edu.au/bus/rdu/conferences>www.rmit.edu.au/bus/rdu/conferences 
> >>>
> >>
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> > 
> 
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