Upcoming changes to the NZ financial services industry pose significant security threats for consumers, banks and merchants, says an anti-fraud expert.

When Facebook announced it was going to list on the stock exchange, it became the hottest stock offering in internet history.

A sheep-farming family from Te Kuiti lost millions of dollars after being duped in a Facebook scam.

A Wellsford man who lied about having five children to receive $120,000 in tax credits has been jailed.

An illegal immigrant who gained New Zealand residency with a false Australian passport - and was charged with holding three other false passports - is on the run.

Judith Collins' resignation yesterday was weeks, perhaps months, overdue. Yet the offence for which she has left the ministry is less clearcut.

A Rolls-Royce formerly belonging to a conman known as "Mr Moneybags" was auctioned for $83,000 yesterday.

Hundreds of motorists are falsely registering their cars as ambulances, avoiding more than $200 in fees.

An insurance broker has denied charges he used client funds to finance his lifestyle - and gave an employee of a customer $159k in secret commissions.

An Auckland stockbroker who admitted fraud has today been sentenced to six years in prison.

The former egg producer whose packaging scam put the spotlight on the NZ industry is predicting a huge drop in the availability of free-range eggs on supermarket shelves.

Bankruptcy action could be brought against Ross Asset Management investors who don't comply with any orders to return payouts.

Investors who managed to withdraw their funds in recent years from Ross Asset Management Ponzi scheme - are warned liquidators may try to claw back the cash.

A chief executive's assistant forged her boss' signature to steal $643,000 from one of the country's biggest insurance firms.

Herbalife shares fell the most in three months after billionaire Bill Ackman vowed to show Enron-like fraud at the seller of supplements and weight-loss shakes.

The former chief executive of a Maori trust has been found guilty of dishonestly using the organisation's credit card to obtain about $15,000.

When two men in their 20s were recently charged in possibly Australia's biggest insider trading case, the headlines were all about the A$7 million score.

The sister of a woman jailed for fraud has won a $1.3 million damages claim against her sibling and brother-in-law in the High Court.

A Maori trust initially dealt in-house with its CEO's irregular spending of about $22,000, rather than prosecute.