CARY, N.C. – Michael G. Carlton, president of Crescent State Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Crescent Financial Corporation (NASDAQ Global Market SM), has announced the release of an audio podcast discussing Fighting Fraud, the first event in Crescent State Bank’s Centsibility Series. In the podcast, Jo Sorbi, security director for the bank, describes what attendees can expect from Fighting Fraud, an event designed to educate the community on the dangers of identity theft. Sorbi provides a list of sensitive material attendees should bring to shred in addition to an overview of future events scheduled for the Centsibility Series.
Fighting Fraud will take place on Thursday, Oct. 16 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Cary Chamber of Commerce, located at 307 N. Academy St. This community event will focus on the importance of discarding personal documents and sensitive material properly. The event will include a Shred-a-thon and Fighting Fraud Seminar, featuring a panel of fraud experts. The Centsibility Series, not just for clients, is designed to educate seniors, families, and business owners on a variety of financial topics such as identity theft and fraud.
The podcast is available for download at http://www.mmimarketing.com/files/josorbifightingfraud.mp3.
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RALEIGH - Raleigh police say Dillard Roe Johnson stole gas cards from an engineering company, then hung around gas stations offering motorists fill-ups for $20 a pop. Now police are trying to track down everyone who took advantage of the special offer — possibly hundreds of people.
Johnson, 27, of 507 Dacian Drive was charged Thursday with three felony counts of financial card fraud, three felony counts of breaking and entering into a motor vehicle and one count of financial card theft, according to a Wake County jail spokesman. Police said he broke into work trucks at Bass, Nixon and Kennedy in West Raleigh over the weekend.
Company president Ed Davenport said whoever stole the cards set up an illicit gas business at Triangle gas stations. “By Monday morning, $23,000 worth of gas had been charged on the cards,” he said.
Scott Wilson, the firm’s survey manager, said the cards were used more than 300 times at more than two dozen gas stations in Raleigh, Smithfield, Morrisville, Wake Forest and Youngsville. Gas purchases ranged from $5 to $400, with most falling between $50 and $100.
“He would stay at some stations for more than an hour, moving from pump to pump,” Wilson said.
Bass, Nixon & Kennedy officials learned of the break-ins Sunday morning. Wilson said they were not too concerned because the thieves did not have the cards’ activation numbers. Wilson said he isn’t sure how someone gained the cards’ numbers, though at some stores an activation number isn’t needed to purchase gas at the pumps.
Johnson confessed to the break-ins and card thefts, according to a search warrant made public Thursday.
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Statewide series of marches to end in Raleigh as NAACP conference begins
Marchers took to the street this week, calling for the state to make reparations for the 1898 Wilmington riots.
About a dozen people marched to the courthouse in Durham on Sunday. It was one of 13 such marches held across the state leading up to the 65th annual conference of the state NAACP, which starts Thursday.
The marchers are asking state legislators to make payments to the descendants of those harmed in an insurrection that led to the deaths of at least 14 black people and perhaps many more.
The riots were brought to the forefront when the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission report was released in 2006 after six years of study by a state-appointed panel.
The panel found that the riots that led to a government overthrow in Wilmington were started by white supremacist leaders in a conspiracy to strip political power from black people and their allies.
State legislators have apologized for the conspiracy, but the state NAACP and other groups in a statewide coalition are calling for the state to make reparations to the families of those who died or lost their livelihoods as a result of the riots.
“You want to apologize, but you don’t want to share the wealth with these people,” said Fred Foster, head of the Durham branch of the state NAACP. “The only way to bring closure is to set things right.”
The group also seeks reparations for forced sterilizations under a state program aimed at preventing the mentally ill and those with low IQs from having children. North Carolina’s State Eugenics Board presided over a eugenic sterilization program from 1929 until 1974 that sterilized at least 7,600 people, almost all of them women and about 60 percent of them black.
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(NewsUSA) - The latest “flavor of the week” in federal immigration enforcement bills is the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act, which relies on the electronic employment verification system (EEVS), which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) calls “E-Verify.”
EEVS sounds easy. Employees fill out an I-9 form proving that they are authorized to work in the U.S. The employer enters this information into a computer, which searches the Social Security Administration (SSA) and DHS databases. If the information provided matches the database, the employee is eligible to work. If not, the employee has a short time to fix the glitch with SSA; if they do not, they must be terminated.
The SAVE Act would require the country’s 7.4 million employers to participate in a mandatory EEVS program. Currently, 55,000 employers use E-Verify - fewer than 1 percent of employers. Adding over 7 million employers to the E-Verify program would cause widespread chaos:
U.S. citizens would be adversely affected: Employees who receive a non-confirmation from E-Verify are often fully eligible to work. The error may be due to a name change, adjustment of immigration status or a data-entry error. SSA estimates that 17.8 million of its records contain such discrepancies - an error rate of 4.1 percent.
E-Verify spurs discrimination: Contrary to state policy, 47 percent of employers using E-Verify entered their employees’ information before the employee’s first day of work rather than after hiring, as required by law.
These employers, fearful of fines and hassles involved with non-confirmation notices, racially profile their prospective employees to begin with and avoid hiring those who appear foreign-born, or refuse to hire those who do not “pass” the E-Verify test. Others encourage those who receive non-confirmations to not contest them; still others take advantage of the non-confirmation status to require their workers to work longer hours under poorer conditions.
It is clear that E-Verify is not ready for prime time. Neither the DHS nor SSA databases have reached the level of accuracy required for a mandatory electronic employment verification system to function fairly and efficiently. Rather than enacting harsh new “enforcement only” measures like the SAVE Act, Congress should get back to the hard work of enacting smart, workable immigration reform that serves America’s interests by protecting employees and employers alike.
For more information, visit The American Immigration Lawyers Association at www.aila.org.
More than 100 attorneys participated in a recent training designed to help them volunteer legal help to low-income families who are dealing with mortgage foreclosures across North Carolina.
The training event was sponsored by the NC Academy of Trial Lawyers, which requested that its members reach out to help individual homeowners who are being threatened with foreclosure or are presently in the foreclosure process and cannot afford legal representation.
“North Carolina homeowners are facing foreclosures in record numbers,” says George Hausen, executive director of Legal Aid of NC. “We are anticipating more than 60,000 foreclosures in North Carolina this year; foreclosure devastates families and undermines community property values. As this trend continues, more attorneys are needed to ensure that homeowners are being treated fairly in the process and that we save as many homes as possible.”
The training, “Responding to the Subprime Mortgage Meltdown: Defending Homeowners Against Foreclosure,” included sessions on the foreclosure process, identification of defenses and optional bankruptcy. Participants heard private attorneys and representatives of the legal services organizations who have partnered to provide mortgage foreclosure representation. Participants are expected to provide representation on a pro bono basis for low-income families who are facing mortgage foreclosure.
Homeowners who are facing foreclosure are encouraged to call the toll-free Homeowner’s Hope Hotline, 888-995-HOPE (888-995-4673). Or they may call Legal Aid of North Carolina, 866-219-LANC (866-219-5262) to ask for legal advise.
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The N.C. Defense Fund, the political action committee of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, endorses Judge Linda Stephens for election in 2008 for Judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Judicial candidate endorsements by the NC Defense Fund are made based on the following criteria:
- Substantial exposure to or appreciation of issues involved in civil litigation;
- Commitment to the evenhanded application of the rules governing our courts;
- An outstanding reputation in the legal community;
- An outstanding record of judicial achievement or possession of the potential to be an outstanding judge.
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Raleigh, NC - Raleigh attorney Bettie Kelley Sousa, a partner with the firm of Smith Debnam Narron Wyche Saintsing & Myers, L.L.P., was elected Secretary of the American Board of Certification at its recent meeting in Rancho Mirage, California. Accredited by the American Bar Association, ABC administers the only nationwide certification of specialists in the legal fields of creditors’ rights and bankruptcy. Mrs. Sousa, primarily a business litigator, has been a creditors’ rights specialist since the certification was first available in 1993. She has served on ABC’s Board of Directors since 2002, on its Executive Committee since 2004, and was Chair of its Standards Committee in 2005 and 2006. In addition Mr. Jerry T. Myers, the managing partner of Smith Debnam, was newly elected to ABC’s Board of Directors for a three-year term
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Twenty-three lawyers from Poyner & Spruill LLP were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in Law & Politics ranking of North Carolina “Super Lawyers.” Over one third of Poyner & Spruill’s seventy-one partners are included in the Super Lawyer list for this year. — The list of 2008 North Carolina Super Lawyers is based on surveys of more than 17,000 active lawyers across the state, and inclusion is thought to be a singular honor.
The 2008 list includes:Craig Dalton (Tax, Raleigh), Hugh Davis (Employee Benefits/ERISA, Raleigh), Tom Davis (Litigation, Raleigh), David Dreifus (Business Litigation, Raleigh), Glenn Dunn (Environmental, Raleigh), Mark Edwards (Estate Planning/Trusts, Charlotte), Nick Ellis (Business Litigation, Rocky Mount), Terri Gardner (Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights – Top 50 North Carolina Female Lawyers, Raleigh), Chip Gibbons (Tax, Raleigh), Susie Gibbons (Labor & Employment – Top 50 North Carolina Female Lawyers, Raleigh), Cecil Harrison (Labor & Employment – Top 100 Super Lawyers, Raleigh), Keith Johnson (Business Litigation, Raleigh), David Long (Business Litigation – Top 100 Super Lawyers, Raleigh), Louis Meyer (Labor & Employment, Raleigh), Tom Norris (Estate Planning/Trusts, Raleigh), Jim O’Brien (Mergers & Acquisitions, Raleigh), Jerry Parnell (Professional Liability Defense, Charlotte), John Shaw (Construction – Top 100 Super Lawyers, Raleigh), Bill Shenton (Health Care, Raleigh), Eddie Speas (General Litigation, Raleigh), David Terry (Labor & Employment, Charlotte), Judy Thompson (Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Charlotte), Joe Zeszotarski (White Collar Criminal Defense, Raleigh).
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This business (Feedzilla.com) is a prime reason for most internet users to have little, or no confidence in using their credit cards online. After signing up for an account at feedzilla this Summer and then finding out that I could get the news feeds for free, I decided “why pay for something that free” I started calling and e-mailing in late August 2007 to cancel my account, first I canceled at the website (feedzilla.com) and I never got a confirmation notice. I then called feedzilla and got a run-arround for my efforts. I checked my bank statements and they took the fee out anyway, so I called again and was told I had to or I should cancel the account by loging in then cancel the account, I had did this already. I sent e-mails, Chat line and each month the fee was withdrawn. I went to my bank and they said I needed a cancelation notice or number but if they keep taking the fee and you can’t contact feedzilla that they would call and confirm it for me. Well this where I’m at now. The last attemp I made was the e-mail below. By:Azor Israel
I have tried to cancel my account for almost 5 months and you keep taking money from my account, and will not contact me when I inquire. After this effort I’m quite sure you are not being honest with me and is in my opionion that you and people like you that give the internet its bad name. I do request that you refund the $50.00 you have taken from my account, without authority or service since it was canceled in 8-24-2007. After 11 phone calls and a number of chats I got no response from leaving messages, I received no confirmation on canceled account. I will be informing others about your unprofessional and down right dishonest business practice.
Feedzilla.com and or Butterfly Effects SA will not answer the phones, they don’t answer e-mails, chat or anything. I know that if you are dealing with this business and can get contact them, it only means one things, you have not tried to cancel your account. I want to make sure the word gets out to all the honest people and businesses on the internet. This kind of business practices most be stopped, pointed out and exposed all over the WWW.
More About Feedzilla.com and Butterfly Effects SA
FeedZilla.com is part of Butterfly Effect SA, a privately held corporation. Butterfly Effect SA’ head office is located in Geneva (Switzerland):
Butterfly Effect SA.
Rue Guillaume-Tell 10
P.O Box 1909
CH-1211 Geneva
Switzerland
Our US customers can call us on (646) 461-6087 (if we are not available, please leave your email address on our voicemail and we’ll contact you asap).
Feedzilla.com offer these free and pay account the free accounts are for as I can see, Useless! and why pay these fees for what you can get free. Accounts: $9.95 a month, $24.95 a month, $39.95 a month, $99.95 a month, and $199.99 a month.
These businesses are assoiated with feedzilla but may not know about their bad business practices.
Feedzilla.com is now hosted on much more powerful servers and all our services are a lot faster now.
Thursday, 17 January 2008
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Feedzilla.com has partnered with Boonty.com and you can download some of the best games directly from Feedzilla.com.
Monday, 24 December 2007
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The Feedzilla.com website has a now a new design.
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Feedzilla.com has managed to raise more money.
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We’ve added a page allowing you to visualize tag clouds for news categories and sub-categories.
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We now propose a FREE package that can allow you to build news widgets for free.
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We’ve added a news search engine to Feedzilla.
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We’re now an official partner of and we’ve designed a partner site for their Go Daddy Hosting Connection.
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You can now add news videos from Reuters and fun videos from MetaCafe to your website and blog.
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Coldbrook Business Corp. becomes Butterfly Effect SA.
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Feedzilla is among Red Herring 100 Europe finalists. .
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We upgraded and improved our Content Tickers.
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RALEIGH, N.C. - Tax season is nearly here and Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) is reaching out to its clients and other low-income persons to provide free, personal income tax return preparation assistance. To qualify for this free service, a family has to have made under $40,000.
“Whether a person worked all year or just a part of the year, they can use this free service,” said Willette Crews, LANC’s Tax Assistance Project coordinator.
The service is sponsored by LANC with the IRS providing oversight under its VITA (”Volunteer Income Tax Assistance”) Program. Trained volunteers will be able to help with special credits, such as Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which is refundable federal income tax credit for low-income working individuals and families.
“We want people to take advantage of this free service,” said Crews. “Family budgets are tight and this directly benefits families by saving them money.”
In addition to free tax return preparation assistance, LANC will also offer free electronic filing (e-filing). Individuals taking advantage of the e-file program will receive their refunds in half the time compared to returns filed on paper - even faster if you have your refund deposited directly into your bank account.
Tax preparation services will take place by appointment at 20 LANC offices across North Carolina.
Appointments for tax preparation can be scheduled by calling LANC’s toll-free telephone number, 1-866-219-LANC (1-866-219-5262) or by calling local LANC offices.
Additional information on the LANC Tax Assistance Program (TAP) may be found on the LANC Internet website, https://www.legalaidnc.org/Public/Participate/TAP/default.aspx.
Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) is a statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to eligible, low-income people in all 100 counties in North Carolina through 24, geographically located offices in North Carolina. LANC’s clients typically have an annual income of 125% or less of the federally established poverty levels.
CONTACTS:
Willette Crews
(Coordinator, Tax Assistance Program, Legal Aid of NC), Durham, NC, 919-688-6396
George R. Hausen
(Executive Director, Legal Aid of NC), Raleigh, NC, 919-856-2564
Dock Kornegay
(Director, Public Relations & Development, Legal Aid of NC), Raleigh, NC, 919-856-2564
SOURCE:CarolinaNewsWire
