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 Maður leiddur út í járnum í lögregluaðgerð í Tryggvagötu Innlent „Kom hvergi nærri samræði hans við barnunga stúlkuna“ Innlent Airbnb-íbúðir leigðar undir fölsku flaggi Innlent Slökkt á eldsneytisflæði rétt eftir flugtak og ruglingur milli flugmanna Erlent Indversk tenniskona skotin til bana af föður sínum við morgunverðarborðið Erlent „Liggur alveg ljóst fyrir að þetta frumvarp er drasl“ Innlent Opinberar gamalt ástarsamband við táningsstúlku Innlent Spá hitabylgju í byrjun næstu viku og allt að 29 stigum Veður Fimm handteknir eftir að skoti var hleypt af Innlent Vændiskaupendur séu oftast fjölskyldufeður á leið til vinnu eða fundar 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 Maður leiddur út í járnum í lögregluaðgerð í Tryggvagötu Innlent „Kom hvergi nærri samræði hans við barnunga stúlkuna“ Innlent Airbnb-íbúðir leigðar undir fölsku flaggi Innlent Slökkt á eldsneytisflæði rétt eftir flugtak og ruglingur milli flugmanna Erlent Indversk tenniskona skotin til bana af föður sínum við morgunverðarborðið Erlent „Liggur alveg ljóst fyrir að þetta frumvarp er drasl“ Innlent Opinberar gamalt ástarsamband við táningsstúlku Innlent Spá hitabylgju í byrjun næstu viku og allt að 29 stigum Veður Fimm handteknir eftir að skoti var hleypt af Innlent Vændiskaupendur séu oftast fjölskyldufeður á leið til vinnu eða fundar Innlent