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 Losnar fyrr og fær ekki að koma aftur í 30 ár Innlent Íslendingur dæmdur í þrettán ára fangelsi í Rússlandi Erlent Kallaði eftir aftöku heimilislauss fólks: „Drepa þau bara“ Erlent Veit um fjögur sjálfsvíg tengd gervigreind Innlent Tinder-svindlarinn handtekinn í Georgíu Erlent Tvíburarnir fengu ár í viðbót Innlent Fordæma ummæli Musk á mótmælum gegn útlendingum Erlent Þórdís Lóa ætlar ekki fram Innlent Brueckner neitar að ræða við bresk lögregluyfirvöld Erlent Þjófur fúlsaði við málverkunum en tók nóg af bjór 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 Losnar fyrr og fær ekki að koma aftur í 30 ár Innlent Íslendingur dæmdur í þrettán ára fangelsi í Rússlandi Erlent Kallaði eftir aftöku heimilislauss fólks: „Drepa þau bara“ Erlent Veit um fjögur sjálfsvíg tengd gervigreind Innlent Tinder-svindlarinn handtekinn í Georgíu Erlent Tvíburarnir fengu ár í viðbót Innlent Fordæma ummæli Musk á mótmælum gegn útlendingum Erlent Þórdís Lóa ætlar ekki fram Innlent Brueckner neitar að ræða við bresk lögregluyfirvöld Erlent Þjófur fúlsaði við málverkunum en tók nóg af bjór Innlent