Check Fraud - Avoid Check Washing Schemes

Thieves are looking for blank checks. Don't give them yours. Protect your checks, and your bank account, from check washing.

The Theft of Cables

This growing problem of cables being stolen does mean life and death for many innocent victims throughout Southern Africa.

Work-At-Home Assembling Crafts Scams

Nothing could be more fun than earning a living by making crafts on your own kitchen table. Some home assembly opportunities promise as much as $30 per hour for this kind of work. The work description requires that you make baby clothes, jewelry, plastic signs, toys, Christmas ornaments, or any other item you can think of.

Guarding Yourself Against Check Fraud

There are new laws enacted to help combat check fraud. A good example of this is Check 21. Check 21 allows banks to provide consumers with electronic images of checks rather than mailing them back to you in your monthly bank account statement. This helps cut down on paper as well as curb some check fraud.

The Toxicology Test - Too Much or Too Little Drugs

Toxicology is a hybrid of physiology and chemistry that deals with drugs, poisons, and other toxic materials, and how these substances change or harm living beings, especially humans.

The Search for Little Madeleine

My heart goes out for this little girl and her parents. It is now 16 or so days since she was taken from her bed and no news is bad news when it has been this long since her abduction.

Chaplains Aide, Prison Ministry - Steps for Involvement

The volunteer minister to prison inmates is entering into an arena of spiritual battle. It is important to count the cost. Examine this in light of the impact on your family and friends. Recognize that the commitment in time alone will involve sacrifice. Be sure your family is behind you in your decision. You must be motivated by a love for hurting, misunderstood, often dysfunctional, and rebellious individuals.

Crime and Corruption Update

We need to change society's view of corruption and instill in them the knowledge that they can do something constructive about putting a stop to it. Investigate the possession of property disproportionate to a person's present or past known sources of income or assets.

WiFi Turns Internet Into Hideout for Criminals

With all the strides that have been made to keep criminals away from children online, the effort is far from over. WiFi gives criminals virtual anonymity to commit their crimes and get away with them.

Prison Ministry - Jail and Prison Chaplains Enlist Church Prison Ministry Teams

Churches today have the opportunity to establish ministry teams and partnerships with jail and prison chaplains to bring the message of light and life in Jesus Christ to those still living in spiritual darkness behind prison walls. Most churches and their members have had little contact with people in prisons and remain unenlightened about prisoners.

Internet Crimes Against Children - A Growing Threat

The Internet can be the most wonderful and dangerous place for children to play. In spite of all of the warnings by the media and police agencies, the problem seems to be growing. Just about everyone of the articles and documenteries addressing this problem come up with the same solution - parents! They need to get much more involved with what their children are doing while surfing the web.

Counterfeit Cash - How To Know Your Money

Counterfeiting is one the nation's oldest crimes dating back to the mid-19th century. Counterfeiting of money is the criminal offense of making an imitation of money with the intent to defraud others into accepting it as real. It was a serious problem back then when banks issued their own currency.

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shooting of two teenage boys

Keep Your Kid Safe On The Internet! Law Enforcement Agencies And Citizen Groups

With the evolving laws that target internet crime, there are various law enforcement agencies and citizen groups who focus on internet predators who prey on minors. This article is about a citizen group called Perverted Justice.

How to Grow a Soldier

The ingredients necessary to grow children into adults willing to do violence to other human beings. As a person with both behavior management expertise and over three decades in the martial arts, I may have a slightly different perspective than the average person does. Let's put a completely fictitious society together designed to increase violence in their children to the point where they are willing to kill other human beings.