Man held in Google stock fraud .

[Victor7]

The FBI has arrested a Dutch native in New York for allegedly selling $2.8 million in nonexistent shares of Google, the Internet search engine.

Shamoon Rafiq, who was arrested at his home March 5, is accused of fraud as part of the scheme to sell victims shares of "Series B Preferred Stock" in Google, prior to what he described as the company's impending initial public offering, according to authorities.

Google, based in Mountain View, has no such shares and isn't raising any capital, the complaint said.

Doug Morris, a public defender representing Rafiq, declined to comment.


Shamoon Rafiq. Now that's a common Dutch name.


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...UGIJ5JL7G1.DTL

[tam]

Tamir isn't a common dutch name either, nor a common israeli name for that matter.... whats your point?

[Johnson]

Neither of you belongs there?

[tam]

Thats actually the (opposite of the) point i was making, that someone's name isnt the most critical factor for determining anything. "Manu" isn't exactly a typical american name but he was born and raised here, and is a good contributing citizen. Victor here only posted this because it's an easy jab at an arab sounding name. And thats bigotry...

[Johnson]

So just ban the guy already. No objections here.

[lilnymph]

And Doug Morris doesn't exactly have me thinking dutch

hugs

lilnymph