Massive Account Fraud 20. júlí 2006 12:36 Four extensive cases of fraud are being investigated by Reykjavik Police. All cases involve theft directly from individual bank accounts, where the perpetrators have succeeded in breaking into web accounts and transferring large sums of money from them. All of the transfers were made from computers with foreign IP numbers. The sums were then re-transferred to the accounts of two men in Iceland, who retransferred it to the Baltic countries. It is believed that certain individuals of foreign orign contacted the men in Iceland to use their accounts for money laundering purposes. Recently there was another fraud case involving text messages from a dating service sent to peoples mobile phones, which included a link to webpage which in turn infected their computer with a virus enabling the criminals in obtaining bank account information. Police encourage people to install powerful anti-virus systems in their computers and to be vigilant of all their transfers. News News in English Mest lesið Stúlka í sjóinn við Reynisfjöru Innlent Stóra tjaldið fellt og hætt við brennuna vegna óveðurs Innlent „Það var töluvert verra veður en spáin sagði“ Innlent Að bugast á hálf nöktum ferðamönnum og beita sektum Erlent Stúlka flutt á sjúkrahús eftir fall í sjóinn við Reynisfjöru Innlent „Fordæmalaus hitabylgja“ leikur Skandínava grátt Erlent „Varla gangfær“ og „skulfu eins og hríslur“ Innlent Klíndu límmiðum á Ormsson sem versla ekki einu sinni við Rapyd Innlent „Manneskja sem er komin á þetta plan hlýtur að vera rökþrota“ Innlent Herjólfur siglir ekki meira í dag Innlent
Four extensive cases of fraud are being investigated by Reykjavik Police. All cases involve theft directly from individual bank accounts, where the perpetrators have succeeded in breaking into web accounts and transferring large sums of money from them. All of the transfers were made from computers with foreign IP numbers. The sums were then re-transferred to the accounts of two men in Iceland, who retransferred it to the Baltic countries. It is believed that certain individuals of foreign orign contacted the men in Iceland to use their accounts for money laundering purposes. Recently there was another fraud case involving text messages from a dating service sent to peoples mobile phones, which included a link to webpage which in turn infected their computer with a virus enabling the criminals in obtaining bank account information. Police encourage people to install powerful anti-virus systems in their computers and to be vigilant of all their transfers.
News News in English Mest lesið Stúlka í sjóinn við Reynisfjöru Innlent Stóra tjaldið fellt og hætt við brennuna vegna óveðurs Innlent „Það var töluvert verra veður en spáin sagði“ Innlent Að bugast á hálf nöktum ferðamönnum og beita sektum Erlent Stúlka flutt á sjúkrahús eftir fall í sjóinn við Reynisfjöru Innlent „Fordæmalaus hitabylgja“ leikur Skandínava grátt Erlent „Varla gangfær“ og „skulfu eins og hríslur“ Innlent Klíndu límmiðum á Ormsson sem versla ekki einu sinni við Rapyd Innlent „Manneskja sem er komin á þetta plan hlýtur að vera rökþrota“ Innlent Herjólfur siglir ekki meira í dag Innlent