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Updated:  10/25/05 7:38 a.m.

10/24/05 J.C. Flowers drops out of Refco bidding war - Private equity firm J.C.
Flowers & Co. on Monday withdrew its bid for the futures brokerage business of
bankrupt Refco Inc. (RFXCQ.PK: Quote, Profile, Research) as other suitors joined
the bidding race and pushed the purchase price up by nearly $100 million

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10/24/05 Making signatures more secure IBM is developing new technology to foil
forgers - Forging someone's signature is one of the oldest and most popular forms
of identity theft.

10/24/05 Loan scam that makes you pay first is back - The loan approvals seemed
like the end to their troubles, but little did two suburban women know, they were
about to get even deeper in debt.

10/24/05 97% of Corporate Fraud Whistleblower Cases Dismissed by Federal
Government - According to the most recently available statistics, 97% of
Sarbanes-Oxley corporate fraud whistleblower cases are dismissed with little or
no investigation by the federal government.

10/24/05 ForeclosureS.com: Chicagoland Housing Market Cooling; Mortgage Fraud
a Growing Problem in Illinois -  Northern California based ForeclosureS.com
(www.foreclosures.com) reported today that signs of softening in the housing
market were emerging in the Chicago metro area, and that Illinois had risen to
number three in the nation with regard to mortgage fraud.
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