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 Íslensk kona í haldi: Hótelherbergi á Tenerife þakið blóði Innlent Boeing þota hrapaði í garð íbúðarhúss Erlent Á bak við auglýsingarnar um Dag en skráður í Samfylkinguna Innlent Dagur hvetur alla Sjálfstæðismenn til að strika sig út Innlent Kosningavaktin: Íslendingar ganga að kjörborðinu Innlent Breytinga að vænta á fylgi Flokks fólksins Innlent Sást á öryggismyndavélum þegar Diego var numinn á brott Innlent Sjálfstæðismaður vill ekki að sitt fólk striki Dag út Innlent Lögreglumenn furðuðu sig á vígahnetti Innlent Frægasti köttur landsins týndur 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 Íslensk kona í haldi: Hótelherbergi á Tenerife þakið blóði Innlent Boeing þota hrapaði í garð íbúðarhúss Erlent Á bak við auglýsingarnar um Dag en skráður í Samfylkinguna Innlent Dagur hvetur alla Sjálfstæðismenn til að strika sig út Innlent Kosningavaktin: Íslendingar ganga að kjörborðinu Innlent Breytinga að vænta á fylgi Flokks fólksins Innlent Sást á öryggismyndavélum þegar Diego var numinn á brott Innlent Sjálfstæðismaður vill ekki að sitt fólk striki Dag út Innlent Lögreglumenn furðuðu sig á vígahnetti Innlent Frægasti köttur landsins týndur Innlent