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 Sagður hafa nauðgað konu fyrir níu árum Innlent Brynjar ákærður fyrir að brjóta á fleiri stúlkum Innlent Mættur í Samfylkinguna Innlent Ítalía tekur aftur upp agaviðurlög frá tíma Mussolini Erlent Ekkert gert til að gera nikótínpúða jafn óaðlaðandi og sígarettur Innlent Hefur þrisvar komið að 13 ára syni sínum meðvitundarlausum Innlent Matvælastofnun kærði tvo búfjáreigendur til lögreglu Innlent Segir Vinstri græn ekki styðja frekari breytingar á útlendingalögum Innlent Hvers vegna er skiltið í Kúrlandi svo hátt uppi? Innlent Líklega verði flett ofan af fleirum í rannsókn á brotum Diddy 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 Sagður hafa nauðgað konu fyrir níu árum Innlent Brynjar ákærður fyrir að brjóta á fleiri stúlkum Innlent Mættur í Samfylkinguna Innlent Ítalía tekur aftur upp agaviðurlög frá tíma Mussolini Erlent Ekkert gert til að gera nikótínpúða jafn óaðlaðandi og sígarettur Innlent Hefur þrisvar komið að 13 ára syni sínum meðvitundarlausum Innlent Matvælastofnun kærði tvo búfjáreigendur til lögreglu Innlent Segir Vinstri græn ekki styðja frekari breytingar á útlendingalögum Innlent Hvers vegna er skiltið í Kúrlandi svo hátt uppi? Innlent Líklega verði flett ofan af fleirum í rannsókn á brotum Diddy Innlent