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 Ákærðar fyrir að auglýsa vændi en kaupendurnir ekki Innlent „Það endaði bara með því að það var brotið á börnunum okkar“ Innlent Hópslysaáætlun virkjuð á Snæfellsnesi Innlent Nauðgaði sofandi kærustu sem hafði ítrekað verið brotið gegn Innlent Grindvíkingum blöskrar umræðan í Vikunni Innlent Jón biðst innilegrar afsökunar á umræðu um Grindavík Innlent Hafi tekið bílstjórann hálstaki meðan hann lá á flautunni Innlent Gretu Thunberg og félögum vísað úr landi Erlent Dómstólar neita Jóni Óttari um að fá afhenta haldlagða muni Innlent Okkar borg – Þvert á flokka tekur slaginn í borginni 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 Ákærðar fyrir að auglýsa vændi en kaupendurnir ekki Innlent „Það endaði bara með því að það var brotið á börnunum okkar“ Innlent Hópslysaáætlun virkjuð á Snæfellsnesi Innlent Nauðgaði sofandi kærustu sem hafði ítrekað verið brotið gegn Innlent Grindvíkingum blöskrar umræðan í Vikunni Innlent Jón biðst innilegrar afsökunar á umræðu um Grindavík Innlent Hafi tekið bílstjórann hálstaki meðan hann lá á flautunni Innlent Gretu Thunberg og félögum vísað úr landi Erlent Dómstólar neita Jóni Óttari um að fá afhenta haldlagða muni Innlent Okkar borg – Þvert á flokka tekur slaginn í borginni Innlent