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Many illegal immigrants fall prey to fraudulent schemes promising a green card.

Instead, it was an integral part of a fraudulent scheme to win new investment banking business.

In one case, Empire took four years to stop a fraudulent scheme; by then, the company had lost $29 million.

There were many others who participated in this fraudulent scheme.

His young age is the only interesting footnote in an otherwise unremarkable fraudulent scheme.

The problem, however, has been to identify ways to distinguish legitimate sales efforts from fraudulent schemes.

Although the fraudulent scheme was widespread, there were few convictions.

While fraudulent long-distance schemes have been going on for many years, voice mail hacking is more recent.

Several complaints about the same provider may indicate a pattern of abuse or a fraudulent scheme, he said.

The fraudulent scheme resulted in losses to North Bay of at least $875,035.