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View all search resultsFinancial shenanigans are actions taken by management that mislead investors about a company’s financial performance or economic health. As a result, investors are tricked into believing that the company’s earnings are stronger, its cash flow more robust and its balance sheet position more secure than they really are.
Despite the government’s best efforts, in particular through the Financial Services Authority’s investment alert task force, in preventing and uncovering investment fraud, there appears to be no shortage of victims in Indonesia to this decades-old crime.
Among the popular scams are said to be the “one ring scam or Wangiri scam”, as well as a fake hospital/injury call where someone calls to report that a family member or friend has been hospitalized and a request to send money for treatment.
Singapore rejected Wednesday Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena's allegation it was sheltering a former central bank chief wanted for fraud, saying Colombo failed to provide documents to support its extradition request.
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