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 Allt of margir með hugann annars staðar í umferðinni Innlent Kosningavaktin: Íslendingar ganga að kjörborðinu Innlent Óeirðir í Valensía og kallað eftir afsögn ráðamanna Erlent Hætta sem sáttasemjarar í deilu Ísraela og Hamas Fréttir Baráttan hafin á TikTok: Traktor í skeifunni, kaldar kveðjur og endurkoma Innlent Missti stjórn á bílnum þegar klæðingin umvafði dekkin Innlent Ætlar 1750 kílómetra á þrektækjum á einni viku í minningu vina Innlent Yazan og fjölskylda leita að nýju húsnæði Innlent Bjartsýn eftir fund í Virginíu vegna Söndru sem afplánar 37 ára dóm Innlent Lögreglan bannaði bjór á B5 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 Allt of margir með hugann annars staðar í umferðinni Innlent Kosningavaktin: Íslendingar ganga að kjörborðinu Innlent Óeirðir í Valensía og kallað eftir afsögn ráðamanna Erlent Hætta sem sáttasemjarar í deilu Ísraela og Hamas Fréttir Baráttan hafin á TikTok: Traktor í skeifunni, kaldar kveðjur og endurkoma Innlent Missti stjórn á bílnum þegar klæðingin umvafði dekkin Innlent Ætlar 1750 kílómetra á þrektækjum á einni viku í minningu vina Innlent Yazan og fjölskylda leita að nýju húsnæði Innlent Bjartsýn eftir fund í Virginíu vegna Söndru sem afplánar 37 ára dóm Innlent Lögreglan bannaði bjór á B5 Innlent