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 Kosningavaktin: Íslendingar ganga að kjörborðinu Innlent Vaktin: Totur farnar að teygja sig til norðurs Innlent Eldri maður á gamalli Corollu ógnaði ekki lífi hjóna á nýjum Ram Innlent Hörð viðbrögð við vaxtahækkunum Innlent Sigmundur hafi viljað í kennslustund með nemendum Innlent Segir íbúafundinn ekki hafa verið nægilega upplýsandi Innlent Tilbúin að aflýsa verkföllum í fjórum leikskólum Innlent „Allt athafnasvæði Bláa lónsins er innan varnargarða“ Innlent Með hundruð kílóa af þýfi heima hjá sér Innlent Ákærður fyrir að nauðga og myrða þrettán ára stúlku 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 Kosningavaktin: Íslendingar ganga að kjörborðinu Innlent Vaktin: Totur farnar að teygja sig til norðurs Innlent Eldri maður á gamalli Corollu ógnaði ekki lífi hjóna á nýjum Ram Innlent Hörð viðbrögð við vaxtahækkunum Innlent Sigmundur hafi viljað í kennslustund með nemendum Innlent Segir íbúafundinn ekki hafa verið nægilega upplýsandi Innlent Tilbúin að aflýsa verkföllum í fjórum leikskólum Innlent „Allt athafnasvæði Bláa lónsins er innan varnargarða“ Innlent Með hundruð kílóa af þýfi heima hjá sér Innlent Ákærður fyrir að nauðga og myrða þrettán ára stúlku Erlent