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 Brynjar ákærður fyrir að brjóta á fleiri stúlkum Innlent Hefur þrisvar komið að 13 ára syni sínum meðvitundarlausum Innlent Segir Vinstri græn ekki styðja frekari breytingar á útlendingalögum Innlent Vísar á bug tillögum um frið í skiptum fyrir úkraínskt land Erlent Hvers vegna er skiltið í Kúrlandi svo hátt uppi? Innlent Samherjaskipstjórinn segir málinu ekki lokið Innlent Líklega verði flett ofan af fleirum í rannsókn á brotum Diddy Innlent Einn af 103 ökumönnum reyndist yfir mörkum Innlent „Þetta má aldrei gerast aftur“ Innlent Um 100 þúsund fjár slátrað á Selfossi 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 Brynjar ákærður fyrir að brjóta á fleiri stúlkum Innlent Hefur þrisvar komið að 13 ára syni sínum meðvitundarlausum Innlent Segir Vinstri græn ekki styðja frekari breytingar á útlendingalögum Innlent Vísar á bug tillögum um frið í skiptum fyrir úkraínskt land Erlent Hvers vegna er skiltið í Kúrlandi svo hátt uppi? Innlent Samherjaskipstjórinn segir málinu ekki lokið Innlent Líklega verði flett ofan af fleirum í rannsókn á brotum Diddy Innlent Einn af 103 ökumönnum reyndist yfir mörkum Innlent „Þetta má aldrei gerast aftur“ Innlent Um 100 þúsund fjár slátrað á Selfossi Innlent