Reading
You’re going to read an article about social media, rich people and crime.
Look at the picture in the text below.
What do you think had happened before the photo was taken?
He has just robbed a bank? He was playing a game of monopoly? Or the man has filed for bankruptcy?
Now read the text.
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The growing significance of social media in litigation was recently illustrated by rapper 50 Cent, who was ordered by a Connecticut court to explain a photo on Instagram in which he posed with stacks of $100 bills that spelled out “broke”, months after filing for bankruptcy. The rapper claimed the money was fake. Investigators often use location search tools which enable them to throw a virtual “geo-fence” around a certain building or area and gather all of the social media posted from there in real time. Another cyber security company uncovered multimillion-pound hidden assets in a divorce case last year by monitoring the location of the children’s social media posts. The court ordered the husband to give his wife $30m, but he claimed not to have such assets. “We monitored social media, particularly for his young adult kids, and found a lot of posts from the same geo-tagged sites,” said Beckett. “Cross-referencing that with land registry and other similar bodies overseas, we found several properties that were registered in the name of this person. “We went to court with a list of assets that we conservatively estimated at $60m, which the court then seized until he settled the amount that had been ordered.” Beckett said the social media indiscretions of super-rich heirs were also leaving their families vulnerable to fraud and extortion. There has been a huge rise in such cases in the last year, as cybercrime groups increasingly target wealthy families as well as corporations. Jordan Arnold, the head of private client services at the firm, said it was helping the super-rich to devise family |
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