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 „Þetta mál hélt fyrir mér vöku í tvo mánuði“ Innlent Fangi lést á Litla-Hrauni Innlent Lentu í dularfullum símatruflunum í Bratislava fyrir fimm árum Innlent Kosningavaktin: Íslendingar ganga að kjörborðinu Innlent Fólk dvelji ekki í herbergjum með glugga í átt að Eyrarfjalli Innlent Þurftu að búa í næstu götu við morðingja bróður síns Innlent Nokkrir tengdir einstaklingar greinst með lifrarbólgu B Innlent „Þetta er auðvitað grafalvarlegt mál“ Innlent Forsætisráðherra segir málið hugarburð, Píratar vilja rannsókn Innlent Dæmdur fyrir sérstaklega hættulega líkamsárás 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 „Þetta mál hélt fyrir mér vöku í tvo mánuði“ Innlent Fangi lést á Litla-Hrauni Innlent Lentu í dularfullum símatruflunum í Bratislava fyrir fimm árum Innlent Kosningavaktin: Íslendingar ganga að kjörborðinu Innlent Fólk dvelji ekki í herbergjum með glugga í átt að Eyrarfjalli Innlent Þurftu að búa í næstu götu við morðingja bróður síns Innlent Nokkrir tengdir einstaklingar greinst með lifrarbólgu B Innlent „Þetta er auðvitað grafalvarlegt mál“ Innlent Forsætisráðherra segir málið hugarburð, Píratar vilja rannsókn Innlent Dæmdur fyrir sérstaklega hættulega líkamsárás Innlent