Carnival of Personal Finance #185: Cheesehead Edition

Welcome to the last Carnival of Personal Finance for 2008, The Cheesehead Edition.  I’m located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and I send greetings from fellow Cheeseheads. We’ve had an interesting winter so far, with record-level snowfalls in December, followed by record high temperatures on Saturday, and now back to freezing temperatures. Hopefully this week’s Carnival of [...]

How to make social media a total waste of time

I admit it: I’m not a lover of all things social media. I am participating in the Facebook and Twitter discussions a bit begrudgingly. It’s not that I don’t think these tools work to grow businesses and create interesting discourse. They do.
It’s just that as a solo, I have only so much time available to [...]

For students and job seekers: Becoming a fraud investigator

I routinely get emails from students, job seekers, or the gainfully employed who want to make a career change… all asking me for advice on getting into the field of forensic accounting and fraud investigation.
Here are my top three tips for getting into this field:

Carnival of Fraud – December 15, 2008

Welcome to the December 15, 2008 edition of carnival of fraud.

Credit Card Assist presents Who Here Hates the Junk Mail and Why it Can Be Dangerous posted at Credit Cards Blog | CreditCardAssist.com.

Jim presents Mona Vie Scam? The Magical Acai Berry Juice Product on Blueprint for Financial Prosperity posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.

Leon [...]

The Journal of Accountancy recommends Sam Antar’s blog

For the Journal of Accountancy’s “Smart Stops on the Web” column:
IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE
www.whitecollarfraud.blogspot.com
Who knows fraud better than a fraudster? Sam E. Antar, former Crazy Eddie Inc. CFO and convicted felon, shares his views and advice on white collar crime, securities fraud, internal controls, Sarbanes-Oxley and more on his blog. The introduction states, [...]

Zac Bissonnette…. on his way to star status!

Huge congratulations go out to my dear friend, Zac Bissonnette. Zac is one of my editors at WalletPop.com, and sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He just signed a huge book deal with Portfolio after a bidding war between 3 publishers.
Publishers Weekly and Media Bistro’s GalleyCat both report on this big book deal. Publishers [...]

Carnival of Fraud – November 24, 2008

Welcome to the November 24, 2008 edition of carnival of fraud.

Jim presents Five Check Fraud Tips by Frank Abagnale on Blueprint for Financial Prosperity posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.

debergerac78 presents How to Recognize and Avoid Phishing Scams posted at Creating With Impact, saying, “This short, simple video tells you how to keep criminals from [...]

My recent articles at AOL’s WalletPop

Here are a few of the more interesting articles I’ve written at AOL’s personal finance site WalletPop recently.
An uglier side to the AIG story – Employees being harassed and intimidated by consumers.

Carnival of Fraud – November 10, 2008

Welcome to the November 10, 2008 edition of carnival of fraud.
Moneywalks presents Credit Report and How It All Works posted at moneywalks.
Kirby presents Are you stupid for paying your mortgage? | Kirby on Finance posted at Kirby on Finance.
Leon Gettler presents Financial ethics and the meltdown posted at Sox First, saying, “What does the implosion [...]

Book publishing insights from Alan Rinzler

Last month I was in San Francisco on business, and was granted the opportunity to meet with Alan Rinzler, an editor with John Wiley & Sons. Though my book is published by Wiley, Alan’s not in my division so I don’t get access to him through the company. This was a special one-on-one meeting requested [...]