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Internet Enforcement Program
Announcements Archive
The SEC combats online fraud through a variety of initiatives, especially the Office of Internet Enforcement. Actions and announcements regarding internet fraud have included:
- "SEC Settles Securities Fraud Action Against 'Tokyo Joe'; Internet Stock Picker Required To Give Up All Illegal Profits, Pay a Penalty of More Than $400,000 and Consent to the Entry of an Anti-Fraud Injunction" - March 8, 2001
- SEC and Regulators from Around the World Conduct an International Surf Day to Help Combat Internet Fraud - May 15, 2000.
- Chairman Arthur Levitt Issues Statement on Internet Search System - April 5, 2000.
- SEC and US Attorney Bring Charges Against 19 Individuals, Including Wall Street Professionals, for $8 Million Insider Trading Scheme; First Case Charging Use of Internet to Pass Inside Information (March 14, 2000) (Additional materials are available: litigation release; U.S. District Court Complaint)
- In First Case of Its Kind, Commission Sues Three Individuals for Illegally Offering Securities Over Internet Auction Site (October 20, 1999) (Related materials: Administrative Proceedings against respondents Sitaras, Hoff, and Davis)
- Testimony of Chairman Arthur Levitt Before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Governmental Affairs, re: Day Trading, on September 16, 1999.
- Speech by SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt: Plain Talk About On-Line Investing (May 1999)
- Written Statement of Richard H. Walker, Directory, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, re: Securities Fraud on the Internet (March 1999)
- SEC Approves Series of Measures in Ongoing Fight Against Microcap Fraud (February 1999)
- SEC Continues Internet Fraud Crackdown (February 1999)
- Statement by Chairman Arthur Levitt, re: On-Line Trading (January 1999)
- SEC Charges 41 People in 13 Actions Involving More than $25 Million in Microcap Fraud (September 1998)
- The Internet and Online Trading: Find out how to invest wisely and avoid fraud on the Internet
http://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce/internetenforce/anncarchive.htm
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