Recognizing that you are neck-deep in a scam is a sobering and emotional experience for anyone. In this situation, everyone wants to recover funds already invested but are not sure how to go about it. In most cases, victims just count their losses and some never recover from it. This book tells you how the author recognized that he was neck-deep in a scam and put in place a process to recover as much of his funds as he could using the scammers techniques against the scammer. And the hunter became the hunted.

This handbook focuses on the key issues that continue to hinder the formal development of cryptocurrencies as a mainstream financial asset. It primarily examines reputationally damaging events, particularly those related to illicit behavior. The goal of the handbook is to determine whether some of these events could be mitigated by improved or at least coordinated international regulation. The handbook will be useful for specialist technical audiences such as legal, accounting and financial practices. It will also be beneficial for upper level masters and research students in economics, law, accounting, taxation, investment and portfolio management.

The book presents the latest advances and research findings in the fields of computational science and communication. The areas covered include smart innovation; systems and technologies; embedded knowledge and intelligence; innovation and sustainability; advanced computing; and networking and informatics. It also focuses on the knowledge-transfer methodologies and the innovation strategies employed to make these effective. This fascinating compilation appeals to researchers, academics and engineers around the globe.

Serving as an introduction to one of the "hottest" topics in financial crime, the Value Added Tax (VAT) fraud, this new and original book aims to analyze and decrypt the fraud and explore multi-disciplinary avenues, thereby exposing nuances and shades that remain concealed by traditional taxation oriented researches. Quantifying the impact of the fraud on the real economy underlines the structural damages propagated by this crime in the European Union. The ‘fruadsters’ benefit when policy changes are inflicted in an economic space without a fully fledged legal framework. Geopolitical events like the creation of the Eurasian Union and 'Brexit' are analyzed from the perspective of the VAT fraud, thereby underlining the foreseeable risks of such historical turnarounds. In addition, this book also provides a unique collection of case studies that depict the main characteristics of VAT fraud. Introduction to VAT Fraud will be of interest to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners. It addresses the topics with regards to banking and finance law, international law, criminal law, taxation, accounting, and financial crime. It will be of value to researchers, academics, professionals, and students in the fields of law, financial crime, technology, accounting and taxation.

This book discusses the principles and practical applications of data science, addressing key topics including data wrangling, statistics, machine learning, data visualization, natural language processing and time series analysis. Detailed investigations of techniques used in the implementation of recommendation engines and the proper selection of metrics for distance-based analysis are also covered. Utilizing numerous comprehensive code examples, figures, and tables to help clarify and illuminate essential data science topics, the authors provide an extensive treatment and analysis of real-world questions, focusing especially on the task of determining and assessing answers to these questions as expeditiously and precisely as possible. This book addresses the challenges related to uncovering the actionable insights in “big data,” leveraging database and data collection tools such as web scraping and text identification. This book is organized as 11 chapters, structured as independent treatments of the following crucial data science topics: Data gathering and acquisition techniques including data creation Managing, transforming, and organizing data to ultimately package the information into an accessible format ready for analysis Fundamentals of descriptive statistics intended to summarize and aggregate data into a few concise but meaningful measurements Inferential statistics that allow us to infer (or generalize) trends about the larger population based only on the sample portion collected and recorded Metrics that measure some quantity such as distance, similarity, or error and which are especially useful when comparing one or more data observations Recommendation engines representing a set of algorithms designed to predict (or recommend) a particular product, service, or other item of interest a user or customer wishes to buy or utilize in some manner Machine learning implementations and associated algorithms, comprising core data science technologies with many practical applications, especially predictive analytics Natural Language Processing, which expedites the parsing and comprehension of written and spoken language in an effective and accurate manner Time series analysis, techniques to examine and generate forecasts about the progress and evolution of data over time Data science provides the methodology and tools to accurately interpret an increasing volume of incoming information in order to discern patterns, evaluate trends, and make the right decisions. The results of data science analysis provide real world answers to real world questions. Professionals working on data science and business intelligence projects as well as advanced-level students and researchers focused on data science, computer science, business and mathematics programs will benefit from this book.

Ichimoku Cloud, or simply Ichimoku, is a revolutionary system that detects new trends, thus preventing the trader from buying in riskier areas. Experienced traders will confirm that entering a trending market is undoubtedly the best way to generate profits, and this is the strength of the system. Ichimoku has several advantages: -The strategies are clear for buying and selling. -It is a stand-alone system that can be supported by other indicators. -The system projects support and resistance zones into the future. The Ichimoku system generates key trading signals in a single chart. This system has already conquered the Asian markets and is present on most cryptocurrency platforms. The Ichimoku has six components, including five curves with different time horizons, which help delineate risk areas. This book is a valuable asset for: -Understanding the components of Ichimoku. -Discovering the impact of emotions on trading. -Incorporating other indicators to support the Ichimoku. -Interpreting alerts and buy and sell signals. -Discovering the five simple and profitable Ichimoku strategies. -Knowing the trading rules to improve your discipline. -Understanding how to accelerate the triggering of signals. -Detecting bear market reversals and avoiding market crashes. This guide also provides an overview of basic technical analysis concepts. This second edition includes 106 color charts and tables to make it easier for the reader to learn. English and Japanese names for indicators are included in all Ichimoku charts. In addition, the second edition offers larger images than the first. Dive into the exciting world of Ichimoku and take your trading to the next level!

The Canadian edition of The Little Black Book of Scams is a compact and easy to use reference guide filled with information Canadians can use to protect themselves against a variety of common scams. It debunks common myths about scams, provides contact information for reporting a scam to the correct authority, and offers a step-by-step guide for scam victims to reduce their losses and avoid becoming repeat victims. Consumers and businesses can consult The Little Black Book of Scams to avoid falling victim to social media and mobile phone scams, fake charities and lotteries, dating and romance scams, and many other schemes used to defraud Canadians of their money and personal information.

"Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the attention of anyone concerned with our economic future." —Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, Former Treasury Secretary From Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna, the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internet’s Next Big Thing: The Blockchain. Big banks have grown bigger and more entrenched. Privacy exists only until the next hack. Credit card fraud is a fact of life. Many of the “legacy systems” once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task. Yet there is a way past all this—a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionize vast swaths of our economy: the blockchain. In The Truth Machine, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive society’s faith in itself. They reveal the disruption it promises for industries including finance, tech, legal, and shipping. Casey and Vigna expose the challenge of replacing trusted (and not-so-trusted) institutions on which we’ve relied for centuries with a radical model that bypasses them. The Truth Machine reveals the empowerment possible when self-interested middlemen give way to the transparency of the blockchain, while highlighting the job losses, assertion of special interests, and threat to social cohesion that will accompany this shift. With the same balanced perspective they brought to The Age of Cryptocurrency, Casey and Vigna show why we all must care about the path that blockchain technology takes—moving humanity forward, not backward.