This section is dedicated to identifying and defining systems of fraud, relevant or irrelevant to the pet care industry, focusing on pet-care and aiming to protect and empower individual and small business consumers.
Company: Rover
CAUSE: System wide support of canine abuse and neglect
Revenue likely derived from fraud: Small - Minor
Details:
Rover serves many markets nation-wide in the United States. One market that it has proactively decided to serve is a market of clients that neglects and or abuses its pets by abandoning them at the homes of pet care providers registered through their app. Rover proactively mandates that care providers do not possess or enforce a safety policy for themselves or for their pet clients that conflicts with Rover’s unwritten safety preferences. In rare cases, if unchecked, this will lead to pets being exposed to conditions out of the care provider’s control that could be considered less safe, such as being housed with another pet that was not originally anticipated, or exposure to business processes such as cleaning that can agitate or even terrify the animal.
Most importantly, Rover’s system supports and condones this form of pet parenting and consumer use through its platform. While it is not likely to receive a large portion of its revenue from this market, it is likely to receive a material portion of its Net Operating Profit After Taxes from this market. For this reason, until Rover has proven that these policies and practices have changed, Rover will receive no support from UCHC or its partners.
Fraud is defined as the wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. Fraud includes false representation of fact, making false statements, or by concealment of information. (U.S. Government, 2023).
Systems of fraud generally contain one or more workers unaware of a systematic misrepresentation and abuse of their role and or duties that may have a small or large impact on the party harmed, but is always compounded over time to amount to a great value.
Company: PayPal
Cause: COMING SOON. Theft of small business funds and other U.S. consumer abuses.
Revenue likely derived: Material - Critical to Company Survival
Details:
Coming Soon. System of fraud designed to steal small business clientele revenue.
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Prescott Nation Forest - Rangers - System of Fraud:
This system fits the organized crime definition too well. The backbone of the organized crime model:
1) Line level workers are unaware they’re committing a crime.
2) The crime appears to be business as usual.
3) A weaker individual is taken advantage of by an individual with immediate authority appearing to fulfill a duty.
How the system operates:
1) Private land is under the jurisdiction of the Sheriff who leaves this piece to Forestry instead.
2) Fringe lifestyle individuals live on the fringe of geographic areas, as close to incorporation and optimal safety as possible.
3) When residents of private land make a call to the Sheriff, the Sheriff employs Forestry, who makes false claims about the property lines of federal and private land.
4) Under threat of misappropriation, vehicle tow, and incarceration, local residents and more importantly business owners, are able to indirectly discriminate against any preferred individual living in the geographical and visible fringe of their residence or business.
NOTE: Camp Verde was selected because of multiple optimal characteristics for forming the nation’s first universal canine health care company and veterinary education infrastructure. The primary challenges the organization has faced has surprisingly come in the form of inhospitable residents, malicious law enforcement, and general bigoted personality of the more affluent characters of the town. It’s also worth noting that where one is infected, normally many are so this organizational model likely operates similarly in many rural areas of the U.S.
Proposed Resolution:
A civil suit will be brought against the forestry department, pending approval of the courts, to enjoin the department from laying claim to private land as their jurisdiction when relocating U.S. residents to serve local business or personal interests. This will in turn require the owner of the land and the Sheriff to engage, where both are currently left out of the interaction.