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 Hætta með ökuskírteini í símaveski vegna Evrópureglna Innlent Ísraelsmenn undirbúi árás á skútuna með Gretu Thunberg um borð Erlent Grafalvarlegt ástand í LA: „Þetta eru einhverjar fasískar leikaðferðir“ Erlent Trump sendir þjóðvarðlið til Los Angeles Erlent Björgunarsveit selur derhúfur í stíl Bandaríkjaforseta Innlent Hótar Musk alvarlegum afleiðingum styðji hann Demókrata Erlent Ríkisstjóri Utah heimsækir Eyjar: Mormónarnir vissu allt um sprönguna Innlent Alþjóðlegir sérfræðingar ræða baráttuna gegn myglu í Hörpu Innlent „Ertu kannski Íslendingur?“ Lífið Rannsökuðu eigin samsæriskenningar um fljúgandi furðuhluti 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 Hætta með ökuskírteini í símaveski vegna Evrópureglna Innlent Ísraelsmenn undirbúi árás á skútuna með Gretu Thunberg um borð Erlent Grafalvarlegt ástand í LA: „Þetta eru einhverjar fasískar leikaðferðir“ Erlent Trump sendir þjóðvarðlið til Los Angeles Erlent Björgunarsveit selur derhúfur í stíl Bandaríkjaforseta Innlent Hótar Musk alvarlegum afleiðingum styðji hann Demókrata Erlent Ríkisstjóri Utah heimsækir Eyjar: Mormónarnir vissu allt um sprönguna Innlent Alþjóðlegir sérfræðingar ræða baráttuna gegn myglu í Hörpu Innlent „Ertu kannski Íslendingur?“ Lífið Rannsökuðu eigin samsæriskenningar um fljúgandi furðuhluti Erlent