A litigator's view of the latest scams and lessons for limiting your risk
By Anthony Riem, Philippsohn Crawfords Berwald
Identity and Financial Fraud - The Consumer Story
By Tom Ilube, Chief Executive Officer of Garlik (www.garlik.com)
Tuesday 9 Jan 2007 18:00-20:00 - 18:00 for 18:30 start sharp
Location:
BCS London Office - Southampton Street, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA
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The Seminar:
Synopsis:
A litigator's view of the latest scams and lessons for limiting your risk, By Anthony Riem
Every day the news is full of businesses that have lost money or had
confidential information stolen as a result of having fallen victim to the
latest scam. The damage done to reputation can be incalculable and the
problem is worsening. The internet has made it easier to commit fraud and
victims are left wondering what they do to recover their position.
Anthony Riem will outline some of the latest scams, look at what the courts
are doing to assist victims and some of the lessons that can be learnt.
Bio for Anthony Riem
Over the last 15 years, Anthony has been instructed to act in numerous cases involving
multi-jurisdictional frauds. He has obtained and discharged UK and worldwide freezing
and search orders and dealt with other matters such as international money laundering;
bribery, the theft of confidential information by employees and market manipulation under the FSA regime.
Anthony is the author of the chapter on civil fraud of the LexisNexis publication,
Fraud: Law, Practice and Procedure and is one of the contributors to the UK Fraud Manual
of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
He has had a number of cases reported in the Times and other law reports and he has
presented a many papers on fraud related issues to organisations such as the
International Chamber of Commerce, the International Maritime Bureau, the Institute of
Public Finance and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy as well as
companies and government institutions.
Anthony is a member of the Law Society Working Party on Civil Fraud and is recommended by
the Legal 500, as one of the specialists in dealing with this area of the law.
Anthony graduated from Leicester University in 1985 before joining PCB in 1991 as a solicitor.
He became a partner in 1996. He joined a nationwide practice in 2001 where he was described
in the Legal 500 as one of its key partners before returning to PCB in 2005.
Identity and Financial Fraud - The Consumer Story, By Tom Ilube
Sometimes in the headline figures around identity theft and financial fraud,
the impact on the individual consumer can be lost. Research shows that to
the consumer it is often the emotional impact, the feeling of being violated
by discovering that someone is out there "being you" that can be most
hurtful.
Based on case studies and consumer research and insight carried out over the
past 18 months, Tom Ilube will describe what consumers are saying about this
new, rapidly emerging wave of identity theft and financial fraud and the
approaches that the average consumer can and are taking to protect
themselves.
Bio for Tom Ilube
Tom Ilube is Chief Executive Officer of Garlik (www.garlik.com), a new consumer
company pioneering a range of services to help give people real power over their
personal information in the digital world, using semantic web technologies.
Until recently Tom Ilube was Chief Information Officer of the world's largest
pure online bank, Egg plc and a member of the Executive Committee. In 2005 Tom
left Egg plc to found Garlik, in partnership with Mike Harris, the Founding CEO of
Egg plc and Professor Nigel Shadbolt of Southampton University.
Tom's technology career spans 20 years with a range of blue chip organisations
including Goldman Sachs, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, The London Stock Exchange,
Cap Gemini and British Airways.
Tom is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Liveryman and Court Assistant of
the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists', the City's 100th Livery Company.
He has an MBA from Cass Business School and in 2005 the University of Wolverhampton
awarded Tom the honorary degree of Doctor of Technology.
