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A very interesting discussion is in store for DACS members on September 3, 2002, at 7 p.m. at the Danbury Hospital Auditorium. The topic of the main presentation will be Cyber Crime Prevention. FBI's Supervisory Special Agent Joseph Dooley will talk about "The Dark Side of The Internet."

Mr. Dooley, a CPA specializing on fraud and white collar crime, will talk about how to protect our computers and our customers from the "dot.con" and the "con-men" and other criminals that take advantage of computers to defraud the community. Mr. Dooley will tell us what techniques criminals are using; with that knowledge we can learn how to protect ourselves from becoming a victim.

Special Agent Dooley is based in New Haven. He was the lead investigator in the case of Martin Frankel, who for eight years in the 1990's operated a phony trading floor from his Greenwich Connecticut home and defrauded a half-dozen insurance companies of more than $218 million. Using computer analysis, Dooley was able to trace Frankel's activities, that included a scheme to obtain control of the assets of several companies, drain off those assets through a "fraudulent" brokerage firm and then transfer and launder them through a dummy charity.

Agent Dooley is a speaker on "White Crime Collar, Cyber Crime and Forensic Accounting" matters before civic, profession and law enforcement groups in the U.S. and Eastern Europe. He is also a lecturer at the International Law Enforcement Academies in Budapest and Bangkok.

Mark September 3rd as an important date not to miss; the speaker will give us all the information necessary to prevent us from becoming the next cyber crime victim. DACS' general meetings start at 7 pm with a question and answer session, followed by brief club announcements. The main presentation starts at 8 p.m.