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 Kona réðst að sjö ára dreng við Smáraskóla Innlent Eiginmaður íslenskrar konu lét sig hverfa rétt eftir brúðkaupið Innlent Hafa „góða hugmynd“ hvar og hvenær stúlkunni var ráðinn bani Innlent „Það er ódýrast og best og fljótlegast að kála þessum dýrum“ Innlent Fundu lík karlmanns í Reynisfjalli Innlent „Ég hefði bara sagt af mér á staðnum“ Innlent Skerjafjarðarskáldið krefst afsökunarbeiðni – annars fer það í mál Innlent Fjórir í bílnum en enginn við stýrið Innlent Yazan afar létt að vera ekki vísað frá landi Innlent Kona á níræðisaldri sá björninn í þriggja metra fjarlægð 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 Kona réðst að sjö ára dreng við Smáraskóla Innlent Eiginmaður íslenskrar konu lét sig hverfa rétt eftir brúðkaupið Innlent Hafa „góða hugmynd“ hvar og hvenær stúlkunni var ráðinn bani Innlent „Það er ódýrast og best og fljótlegast að kála þessum dýrum“ Innlent Fundu lík karlmanns í Reynisfjalli Innlent „Ég hefði bara sagt af mér á staðnum“ Innlent Skerjafjarðarskáldið krefst afsökunarbeiðni – annars fer það í mál Innlent Fjórir í bílnum en enginn við stýrið Innlent Yazan afar létt að vera ekki vísað frá landi Innlent Kona á níræðisaldri sá björninn í þriggja metra fjarlægð Innlent