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 Lést samstundis þegar ekið var á hana á 143 kílómetra hraða Innlent Ólga vegna samskiptaleka: „Ég elska Hitler“ Erlent Bankinn hefur samband ef hann skuldar þér pening Innlent Rússneskur kafbátur í fylgd sænska hersins Erlent Gummi Emil sver af sér ásakanir um dýraníð: „Ég bað hestinn afsökunar“ Innlent Karlmaður í haldi vegna gruns um brot gegn barni í Hafnarfirði Innlent Greip inn í þegar aldraður faðir hans keypti bíl handa vinkonu sinni Innlent Álag á bráðamóttöku og fólk beðið um að leita annað Innlent Viðkvæmur friður þegar í hættu? Erlent Dónatal í desember Erlent
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 Lést samstundis þegar ekið var á hana á 143 kílómetra hraða Innlent Ólga vegna samskiptaleka: „Ég elska Hitler“ Erlent Bankinn hefur samband ef hann skuldar þér pening Innlent Rússneskur kafbátur í fylgd sænska hersins Erlent Gummi Emil sver af sér ásakanir um dýraníð: „Ég bað hestinn afsökunar“ Innlent Karlmaður í haldi vegna gruns um brot gegn barni í Hafnarfirði Innlent Greip inn í þegar aldraður faðir hans keypti bíl handa vinkonu sinni Innlent Álag á bráðamóttöku og fólk beðið um að leita annað Innlent Viðkvæmur friður þegar í hættu? Erlent Dónatal í desember Erlent