Economic Crime Birthplace of Emails

Most Australians know their country leads the world when it comes to cricket and swimming but until yesterday our prowess at corporate fraud had been sadly neglected. Enter accountant PricewaterhouseCoopers, whose "global economic crime survey 2003" claims 47 per cent of Australian businesses suffered from "economic crime" - that is theft, fraud, corruption or bribery - in the past two years. This puts us well ahead of our Asia-Pacific counterparts (39 per cent) and only slightly behind the world's worst region Africa (51 per cent), the birthplace of emails from Nigerian royalty asking for bank account details.
· Austro Nigerian Empire [Age ]
· Canada [ Ottawa]