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Don't Use These Lame Acronyms If You Don't Want to Get Nabbed by the Feds
Criminals always slip up. They leave behind fingerprints. Hair. A cigarette butt. A telltale acronym. TYOP (tell you on phone), TOL (talk offline) and LDL (let’s discuss live) are red flags for prosecutors combing through the e-mail transcripts of Wall Street traders suspected of illegal activity. No need for a crime lab. A simple search -- Control-F on the computer keyboard -- has become one of investigators’ favorite weapons to uncover possible lawbreaking, according to defense attorneys and current and former prosecutors who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity. Just taking a conversation offline can be ... (full story)