Why settle for just emptying an online bank account? Scammers conned both a mortgage firm and a bank to hit an IT director for £60,000. UK police are hunting the gang responsible for the scam, and at least nine others like it, that are estimated to hav... ...full story at the register (uk)
from the register (uk) on Tue, Oct 30 2007
see also:
| 14 Sep 07 |
  |
Germany nets ten phishing suspects » the register (uk) Trojan spam scam nipped in the bud German police have arrested ten people suspected of running a phishing scam designed to raid the contents of online bank accounts that netted hundreds of thousands of euros.… |
| 20 Aug 08 |
|
UK bank chief stung in ID theft scam » the register (uk) HBOS boss conned Updated Identity fraudsters have claimed the prize scalp of the chief exec of HBOS bank.… |
| 30 Oct 08 |
|
French police cuff six over Sarkozy bank fraud » the register (uk) 50 victims stung by mobile phone scam French police have arrested six people on suspicion of fraud involving the bank account of French president Nicolas Sarkozy.… |
| 29 Sep 08 |
|
Bear squeeze blues: How to destroy a bank » the register (uk) Set phasers to 'short sell' Comment With the banks apparently unable to cope with the markets anymore, the poor dears, short selling has been banned to protect them. HBOS is being taken over cheaply, even compared to what a mortgage bank is worth in this... |
| 31 Aug 08 |
 |
Too Easy For Bank Accounts To Spring a Leak » slashdot The NYTimes has a cautionary tale of automated clearing house fraud. Parties unknown siphoned money from an individual's bank account. Nothing too unusual there, except that it was an elite private banking account at JPMorgan Chase, and the account holder... |
china
thailand
japan
technology