1.   At Sunbeam, the SEC filed a civil fraud complaint against the Andersen partner who certified statements showing profits that turned out to be vastly inflated.

2.   Bradley and five other board members last year also filed formal fraud complaints against the company with federal regulators.

3.   After the SEC filed its fraud complaint, several companies controlled by Bennett filed for bankruptcy.

4.   Consumers can file a fraud complaint with the FTC online at www.ftc.gov.

5.   In June, the administration opened a toll-free hotline to take fraud complaints and tips from Medicare beneficiaries.

6.   It would lower the threshold of proof needed for investors filing lawsuits, thus increasing the exposure of individual accountants, lawyers and stockbrokers to stock fraud complaints.

7.   More worrisome to consumer advocates are the rapidly rising number of Internet fraud complaints.

8.   Securities fraud complaints cover a range of issues such as companies misstating financial results and overstating business prospects and insiders trading on nonpublic information.

9.   The deal settles a fraud complaint surrounding the purchase of what the city administration argued was a shoddy computer system put in by a former ruling-party administration.

10.   The SEC filed a civil fraud complaint against three Andersen partners who were involved in the audit, all of whom settled them without admitting or denying the allegations.