The United States Embassy in Port au Prince, Haiti is warning that there is a new advance fee fraud scheme targeting Haitians and Haitian Americans. Haitians, and Americans who are sponsoring their Haitian relatives, are being asked to pay fees up front in exchange for a guarantee that they can bring up to five of [...]
Entries from February 2010
haitians targets in advance fee fraud visa scheme
February 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Consumer law · Fraud and "con" schemes · Identity Theft · Immigration Law · Internet Fraud · Ruminations · visa fraud
Wikipedia Dispute Resolution
February 10th, 2010 · No Comments
Putting my last name into Google a few days ago, I found an article recently published in volume 59(1) of the Emery Law Journal regarding the role of dispute resolution in the collaborative online production of the English Wikipedia project. As the article mentions in detail (pgs. 166-170), I had a role in the policy [...]
Tags: Alternate Dispute Resolution · Internet and Web 3.0 · Internet law and blogs · Not-for-profit law · Ruminations
CUNY Haitian TPS Workshops
February 5th, 2010 · No Comments
The City University of New York (CUNY) is offering a series of free workshops to assist Haitians applying for TPS, the last upcoming workshop is on Saturday, February 20, 2010. The free workshop will be held at: York College, Academic Core Atrium and Lobby, 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Queens, NY 11433. If you would [...]
Tags: Ruminations
Internet Addiction
February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
Is it possible to sue for internet addiction, online gaming addiction, computer or Blackberry addiction? Who is responsible for someone who has psychological or even physical symptoms from overuse of their computer, portable device or gaming console? Some might think these questions silly — “Of course the person responsible for using the computer is the [...]
Tags: Ruminations
