Fraudster’s getaway on last minute bookings
For credit card fraudster to succeed they rely on the credit card being valid and that the system does not pick it up, otherwise all of the illegal work would have been for nothing.
There is a growing sector for credit card fraud where the credit card and the fraudster are able to get away, literally!
The [...]
Keeping safe online
Being able to bank and shop online has become one of the greatest things ever; no longer do you have to drive for miles and queue up to either pay your bills or buy your weekly shop. Nowadays almost anything can be done online, but this convenience does come with a risk.
You have to realise [...]
Drug dealer claims 1/4 million from bank
The Supreme Court in Switzerland has ruled that a claim put forward by a convicted drug dealer for some cash that he had stashed away in a Swiss bank account returned to him after it was seized by the authorities.
The drug dealer who comes from Australia had been in prison and travelled to Switzerland [...]
Who are the cyber criminals?
Although the people behind cyber crime are basically faceless this sort of crime is one sector within the organised crime industry that is continuing to grow, in fact there has been a rise of around forty per cent a year into a £51 billion industry.
This growth underlines the fact that it is not just a [...]
Soak your cash to make double
There has been some really good scams around that like selling Tower Bridge to the Americans and so on, then there are those that are really outrageous and make you wonder how on earth some people get sucked into these ideas.
Take the Vietnamese man based in Norway, he found a Frenchman who had a new [...]
Man cashes cheque for $360 billion
A man tries to cash a cheque in a Fort Worth, Texas bank for a mere $360 billion and is surprised when the bank ask him a few questions about it! He claims that the money is from the mother of his girlfriend who is financing him to start up a record company.
But later Charles [...]
Cyber criminal stole $1.4 million
A cyber criminal who stole carried out attacks that affect over six hundred people has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla aged 40 from Columbia was found guilty of committing computer fraud on grand scale. The proceeds of which netted him around $1.4 million.
Along with his sentence he was given a [...]
Spotting Phishing scams
Emails pretending to be from banks and other organisations are getting pretty popular these days and although they may appear to be from your bank, they are in fact trying to get your banking details off of you or as it has become to known as “Phishing”
Here are tips on how you can fight [...]
Bank account phisher caught on tape
A man who tends to record his phone calls (For whatever reason that is?) has caught a person on a phishing expedition trying to get his bank details; this is a great lesson to be learned:
Caller: “I’m a representative of the United States Banking commission and by mistake we took $481 out of your checking [...]
Data mix up
It’s impossible to say but, what on earth is happening to the data that companies and governments keep on us? We are told that everything is safe and secure which most of the time it probably is, but recently there has been so many data mix ups that it is getting worrying now.
Take the US [...]
Fake $100 bills swamp the world
It seems that there are some people around the world who are master criminals, not in the take over the world kind of thing but in they way that they are producing their product, in this case “Dollars” these fakes are perfect in virtually every way.
They can be obtained from almost anywhere too; some have [...]
$50 million painting stolen
Thieves broke into a museum in Brazil a got away with a massive haul of valuable paintings which included a Picasso and Portinari, the raid on the Sao Paulo Museum of Art only lasted three minutes but in this small amount of time the thieves got away with the top exhibits.
Among the haul was the [...]