From: Robert Hettinga To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@ma.ultranet.com Subject: DCSB: Jonathan Rusch, USDOJ; Internet Fraud and the Future of Digital Commerce Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 9:48 AM --- begin forwarded text Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 08:20:48 -0500 To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu, dcsb-announce@ai.mit.edu From: Robert Hettinga Subject: DCSB: Jonathan Rusch, USDOJ; Internet Fraud and the Future of Digital Commerce Cc: "Jonathan J. Rusch" Sender: bounce-dcsb@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: Robert Hettinga -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Jonathan Rusch Special Counsel for Fraud Prevention U.S. Department of Justice Internet Fraud and the Future of Digital Commerce Tuesday, March 2nd, 1999 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA As e-commerce aspires to reach the trillion-dollar level early in the next century, one factor that could adversely affect its growth is the strength of consumer confidence in the security and privacy of online transactions. Fraud on the Internet, however, includes far more than just the risk of unauthorized "data harvesting" of credit card numbers or other valuable data. Reports to consumer organizations and government agencies reveal a wide range of fraudulent schemes that, in offline form, are familiar to law enforcement authorities: securities market manipulations, sales of computer hardware and software, prizes and sweepstakes, to name but a few. This talk will identify some of the more substantial challenges that Internet fraud, in all its forms, poses for law enforcement and the private sector, and discuss some of the measures that can be taken to address Internet fraud and foster consumer confidence in the Net. Jonathan J. Rusch is Special Counsel for Fraud Prevention in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He serves as the Department of Justice's national coordinator on Internet fraud, chairing the Telemarketing and Internet Fraud Working Group and co-chairing the Internet Securities Fraud Subcommittee of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Working Group. Mr. Rusch has been one of the Department of Justice's leading white-collar crime prosecutors, and received the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award in 1995 for his work on the House Bank scandal. He received his A.B. degree with honors from Princeton University, and his M.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Virginia. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, March 2, 1999, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $32.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V hardware, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and "appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in violation of the dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, February 30th, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $32.50. Please include your e-mail address, so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to . We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.5 iQEVAwUBNr7fk8UCGwxmWcHhAQF+HAf/aA22i5p042T7FG0uj/RvrUWvLl+v2fam UT7WYLoERs8dFgG44UIETEEXE1v/wOCPlyBoEyIh79OGoyGGBq529MKmVmxSBVyn eoayGHBVkxBZBobFChPYEjf1K1pskiGnTT0+aQtUUMC6bsuCskoN4r+R5u9JLoJP x1k6K5DoBjOAE2+bvsp2Czjs32QGxTToD3QmcB0SwFcpjlyyMT9ZyrGej0ZtA/da nuVBPoqWBB1wuYXtMq9y/h59/ZWCWWenTlDI6QfJVATTLdz0mt+Ts7XN/A96XfCk /h8NlDpHdrp1Cjc8UDdAcw6ghRpMcZEcXRwRH13nII1i5YxzvHGopg== =Z10n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert A. 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