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  • Web Extra: Hacker Heist Update Thursday, 22 Jan 2009 | 10:47 PM ET

    We told you yesterday about a major credit card data breach that is putting millions of consumers at risk. Tonight, we have an update.

  • Consumer Alert: The Great Credit Card Heist Thursday, 22 Jan 2009 | 1:22 PM ET

    100 million credit cards put in jeopardy. Find out what you can do to protect yourself.

  • Hunt for Missing Manager Leads to Louisiana: Report Monday, 19 Jan 2009 | 5:11 PM ET

    Federal law enforcement agents have tracked missing Sarasota hedge fund manager Arthur G. Nadel to Slidell, La., through cell phone records, according to a report in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, which cited sources close to the investigation.

  • Madoffs Shared Much; Question Is How Much? Thursday, 15 Jan 2009 | 11:41 AM ET

    The New York Times asks whether Ruth Madoff knew of her husband's scheme.

  • Time to Start a Fugitive Watch? Wednesday, 14 Jan 2009 | 10:54 AM ET

    We have this D.B. Cooper wannabe who botched an attempt at disappearing. The UBS guy who apparently went on the lam after being accused of helping rich people hide their money from the tax man. And the cameras stay trained on Bernie Madoff's apartment building in hopes he do something even more titillating than he has already done.

  • See What People Are Saying About... Madoff Bail Ruling Monday, 12 Jan 2009 | 12:37 PM ET

    Accused swindler Bernie Madoff remains out on bail despite arguments by prosecutors that he tried to disperse assets...

  • Skilling Convictions Upheld, Resentencing Ordered Tuesday, 6 Jan 2009 | 5:30 PM ET

    A U.S. appeals court upheld the 19 felony convictions of former Enron President and Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling but said he must be resentenced.

  • Thousands of Claim Forms Sent to Madoff Customers Monday, 5 Jan 2009 | 12:58 PM ET
    Bernard L. Madoff

    More than 8,000 forms have been mailed to customers of accused swindler Bernard Madoff so they can make claims by March or July for any money they may have lost, the trustee overseeing the liquidation of Madoff's firm said on Monday.

  • Could Madoff Have Acted Alone? Monday, 22 Dec 2008 | 5:47 PM ET

    As we told you Friday many investors are skeptical that Bernie Madoff acted alone.

  • The Bernie Madoff story is making us all re-evaluate where we have our money. Let's make sure, if nothing else, it teaches us to be wary of potential cons.

  • Madoff Madness: Frazzled Investors Friday, 19 Dec 2008 | 6:52 PM ET

    Frazzled investors are asking one another about Bernie Madoff. The Ponzi scheme he allegedly orchestrated has caused a lot of angst on the Street.

  • Credit Skimming & Other Forms of Credit Fraud Thursday, 18 Dec 2008 | 9:52 PM ET

    Several times a day, without even realizing it, we hand over some of our most sensitive information to strangers: our credit card numbers.

  • Web Extra: Avoid These Nasty Travel Scams Wednesday, 17 Dec 2008 | 9:17 PM ET

    If you aren’t on guard when preparing your getaway, you could lose it all to fraud.

  • Staking Out Bernie: Exclusive Video Wednesday, 17 Dec 2008 | 3:17 PM ET

    We had been camped out here at the federal courthouse for two days now waiting for Bernie Madoff before we got a shot of him.

  • Warren Buffett, right, chairman of Berkshire Hathawy Inc., speaks to the media while Ron Ferguson, chairman and chief executive officer of General Re, listens in New York on Friday, June 19, 1998. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is buying General Re for $22 billion worth of stock, adding one of the world's leading insurers of insurance companies to its portfolio. Berkshire announced Friday after the stock market closed that it would let General Re operate independently of its other insurance operations,

    The former chief executive of General Re was sentenced today to two years in prison and fined $200,000 by a federal judge in Hartford, Connecticut.  66-year-old Ronald Ferguson was convicted in February of participating in a secret scheme with other Gen Re executives and an AIG official to make AIG's financial picture look better than it really was back in 2000 and 2001. General Re is a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. AIG was Gen Re's client at the time.

  • SEC Confirms Internal Investigation of Madoff Case Tuesday, 16 Dec 2008 | 5:57 PM ET
    Bernard Madoff

    Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox has asked the agency's inspector general to investigate the SEC's conduct with regard to the alleged Ponzi-scheme linked to money manager Bernard Madoff, CNBC has learned.

  • "There were people in Omaha who thought what I was doing was some sort of Ponzi scheme." That's Warren Buffett talking about his early days as a money manager in the late 1950s, as quoted by Alice Schroeder in her recent Buffett biography The Snowball.  It wasn't as crazy a thought back then as it might seem now.

  • Investing scams don't just target the rich. There are plenty that go after your thousands, not your millions.

  • Ponzi Primer: What the Bernie Madoff Case Means to You Monday, 15 Dec 2008 | 10:02 PM ET
    Bernard L. Madoff

    What could be Wall Street's largest scam in history can teach us all to be wary when it comes to who we invest with.

  • Madoff Victims Claim Conflict of Interest at SEC Monday, 15 Dec 2008 | 7:15 PM ET
    Bernard L. Madoff

    Many of those who say they were victimized by long-time investor Bernard Madoff's alleged "Ponzi" scam are up in arms that the Securities and Exchange Commission, Wall Street's top cop, didn't crack down on his activities sooner.

American Greed

  • Lydia Cladek, a New Age evangelist becomes a greedy, groovy, guru telling Florida investors that positive thinking can lead to positive returns in her auto financing business.

  • When Staff Sergeant Kevin Crowell returns from Iraq, he struggles to deal with getting back to everyday life.

  • Fraudster Ron Wilson is a trusted member of his South Carolina community where he serves as a County Councilman, and a silver dealer.

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