tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35992913828327011892012-02-16T17:30:04.993+05:30An effort to consolidate various fraud related news from newspapers/websites across the worldPiyushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03667533240784056876noreply@blogger.comBlogger3341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3599291382832701189.post-50129904487187458332008-07-17T12:36:00.001+05:302008-07-17T12:56:29.650+05:30

Pune, July 16 A woman lost Rs 25,000 to an ATM card fraud on Sunday soon. The victim, Trupti Nitin Menvelkar (39) of Tejas Society, Kothrud has lodged a complaint with the Kothrud police station. Police said Trupti and her husband had gone for a movie at City Pride theatre on Saturday evening. While coming back from the cinema hall, she lost her wallet carrying her ICICI bank ATM card. On Sunday,

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Call them the Coreflood Gang. A ring of cyber bank robbers from southern Russia has quietly perfected a way to get a beachhead inside company networks.Once inside, it infects every PC within reach with a custom-made data-stealing program called Coreflood. The goal: go rip off bank accounts online. Over the past 16 months, the Coreflood Gang has infected swaths of PCs inside thousands of companies

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Security analysts have warned users of the Monster.com website of a phishing attack by Turkish hackers.Almost a year ago hackers stole the details of 1.3 million users from Monster.com. Even more recently a group used an identity harvesting tool to extract information from resumes posted on Monster and other job sites.Now a security analyst a McAfee, Greg day, has issued a warning of a new

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Women Known As 'Richmond Girls' ArrestedRICHMOND, Calif. -- An international crime ring involving more than a $1 million worth of credit card fraud has ties to the Central Valley, police said.Police arrested six women from the Bay Area who were allegedly targeting 10 Central Valley stores in a credit card fraud scheme.Officials of the Sacramento Valley High Tech Crimes Task Force said the group

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The San Marcos Police have made two arrests in what they say is the largest case of credit card fraud in memory.The evidence room at the San Marcos Police Department looks like an electronics store.When police arrested the men, they had 50 credit cards and close to $30,000 in video games, mp3 players, computers and movies.San Marcos Police Commander Terry Nichols said it took hours to log the

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If you are thinking of filing your income tax returns online, think twice. It is very easy for anyone to hack into your account and have access to your income tax details. How can this be done? All a hacker needs to know is your name, permanent account number (PAN) and your date of birth. He first needs to log onto the e-filing website (https:www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in). A ‘taxing’

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THE VAST majority of identity fraud victims (68 per cent) incur no out of-pocket expenses. This points out that businesses are victims of fraud. The aim of this paper is to provide some clarity to the real losses sustained by organisations whose customers experience identity theft. This fraudulent behaviour by criminals erodes the reputation and profits of institutions, which I am calling ’

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LUCKNOW: In an effort to tighten noose around cyber criminals, the district police recently organised a slide-show presentation in which a private software firm displayed biometric technology tools to control this growing menace. Around 150 cyber cafe owners were also present at the presentation. Titled 'Cyber Cafe Monitoring System (CCMS)', the technology comprises of a biometric system for

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Reformed hacker-turned-security-consultant Kevin Mitnick served five years in federal prison for breaking into phone and software company networks. He talks about his past hacking exploits, computer security, and how he turned an illegal hobby into a useful career.Hacking wasn't always illegal. I started off in what they call "phone phreaking" in the late 70s. This is the same hobby Apple

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The chain of command of a cybercrime gang is not unlike the Mafia, an evolution that shows how online crime is becoming a broad, well-organized endeavor.The latest research from Web security company Finjan, released on Tuesday, outlines a pyramid of hackers, data sellers, managers and malicious programmers, all working in a fluid management structure in order to profit from cybercrime.Finjan

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New Zealand police are so impressed by the skills of a teenager at the centre of a global credit card scam worth millions of pounds that they are considering offering him a job fighting cyber-crime. In a surprising development, Owen Thor Walker, 18, who used the online name 'Akill', was discharged without conviction in the High Court at Hamilton after admitting his role in a sophisticated

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A House of Lords committee has called on the government to make banks, not customers, legally liable for internet fraud.The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee called for legislation to force banks to cover customer losses incurred through e-crimes in its follow-up report into personal internet security published in August 2007.The report claims that, under the current system, banks

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Thursday for credit card fraud in the latest incident involving Malaysians.Hua Mark district police chief Vatana Ejin said the suspects, aged 31 and 33, reportedly told police they were part of a group headed by a China national who was detained by police last week.The man's five accomplices were also picked up.Vatana said the duo were nabbed after a commercial bank reported that they used fake

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The Hague. Officials bust a European syndicate Friday responsible for the large-scale forgery of credit cards, arresting five people in Italy and two in Greece, policing agency Europol said, AFP reported. "The perpetrators skimmed and cloned credit cards, originating from countries all over Europe," it said in a statement. "The data was then utilisedproduce counterfeit payment cards which were

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LONDON: Jagmeet Channa, a British Indian bank clerk, has been sent to prison for nine years for trying to defraud HSBC of about 70 million pounds ($140 million).Channa used to plunder accounts using identities of colleagues at the bank's headquarters in Canary Wharf in London, where he was employed.Channa admitted to fraud and a charge of money laundering. He was caught early May within minutes

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Fliers must carry photocopy of credit card used for purchase The next time you buy an air ticket online for someone you know, don’t forget to give that person an attested photocopy of your credit card because airlines are becoming stricter in implementing a fraud-prevention rule that has been in existence for some time. Amitabha Banerjee (name changed on request) was unaware of this when he

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NEW DELHI: Delhi Police claimed to have unearthed a counterfeit currency racket backed by Pakistan's ISI with the arrest of a person. Mohammed Mushtaq, the alleged main conduit of the racket, was caught by Delhi Police's Special Cell from near Chhatrasal Stadium in the capital allegedly with fake notes having a face value of Rs 1.8 lakh, police said. The arrest came following an input that a

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(Tampa Tribune (FL) (KRT) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Jul. 12--Seizing on the major fiscal news of the year, Internet scammers are trying to use federal economic stimulus checks as a hook to steal personal financial information, the Internal Revenue Service warns.Almost 700 such scam attempts were reported in May and June, bringing the tally for 2008 to about 1,600.Victims of these fraud attempts

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In Symantec Corp.'s July 2008 edition of its monthly spam report, one of its findings noted that hackers were using personal e-mail accounts to scam contacts in a user's address book. The twist was that the e-mail came from a user's hacked webmail account and was sent to their personal list of contacts. People on this list would receive an e-mail request for financial assistance and were urged to

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WHITE CITY — Police are asking the public to be aware of a man involved in a mortgage scam that has cost at least one White City resident $300 and opened her up to identity theft.A White City woman was approached recently by a man claiming to work for a mortgage "watchdog" group. The suspect said he could look over mortgage paperwork to spot potential errors that could save the buyer thousands of

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NANJING, July 11 (Xinhua) -- A man was sentenced to two years in jail and fined 5,000yuan (731 U.S. dollars)in eastern Jiangsu Province for hacking into a website and changing the bank account of a local Red Cross foundation for earthquake donation to his own account, according to a court ruling on Friday. Yang Litao, a staff member of a network technology company in south China's Shenzhen City,

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LUCKNOW: The district police, in order to tighten the noose around cyber criminals, organised a slide show for around 150 cyber cafe owners on Thursday in which a private software firm displayed the latest technology to control cyber crime. The technology, according to the firm, will be used for the first time in India. The technology introduced is titled 'Cyber Cafe Monitoring System (CCMS)'

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The Likud Party's official Web site was hacked into twice Monday morning by Palestinian activists seeking to display political messages. The messages appeared primarily in English, although some were in Hebrew and Arabic. The main banner on the hacked page displayed an English message, "Only free men can negotiate," above a line that read, "Palestine. Dying to live," accompanied by the image of a

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Dozens of customers of the Murco petrol station on the A40 at Andoversford were contacted by their banks following suspicious withdrawals on their credit and debit card accounts – in countries such as Jamaica.Police believe a skimming device that copies card information could have been fitted to the garage's credit card swipe machine.Details were then used in cloned cards to withdraw money and

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Unisys' Singapore subsidiary is working with Actimize to implement a financial crime surveillance system for DBS Bank in Singapore that monitors transactions and analyses potentially suspicious patterns across the bank's product channels. DBS Bank is one of the largest financial services groups in Asia. Research from Celent has indicated that Singapore and Australia are the countries most aware

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Unisys' Singapore subsidiary is working with Actimize to implement a financial crime surveillance system for DBS Bank in Singapore that monitors transactions and analyses potentially suspicious patterns across the bank's product channels. DBS Bank is one of the largest financial services groups in Asia. Research from Celent has indicated that Singapore and Australia are the countries most aware

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The claims of an unidentified Chinese hacker have alarmed Korea's Internet portals. Nate.com, a leading Korean portal run by SK Communications, is dismayed by a message left on a Chinese website. Claiming to be a hacker, the writer offered to sell the personal information of 12 million Nate.com members for one million yuan (W100 million, US$1=W1,006). As if to prove the claims, the writer

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Police are warning residents to keep tabs on their credit cards after thousands of numbers are stolen. Thieves have stolen nearly $150,000 from 40 people since February through skimming. According to Grand Junction police, there is an average of $2,000 dollars stolen during each of the incidents. Police say the suspects' employers and co-workers had no way of knowing the crime was taking place.

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DALLAS -- Hackers successfully accessed Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores, stealing millions of dollars and personal information from unsuspecting customers, CSNews Online reported yesterday. It is estimated the breach began in October of last year. To date, it is unclear how many of Citibank's approximately 5,700 branded ATMs in 7-Eleven stores were impacted.7-Eleven spokeswoman

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Unidentified hackers broke into several hundred Lithuanian Web sites over the weekend, plastering them with communist symbols, government officials said Monday. The hackers posted Soviet symbols - the hammer and sickle, as well as the five-pointed star - and scathing messages with profanities on Web sites based in the ex-Soviet nation, officials said."More than 300 private and official sites were

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Large corporate web sites were heavily targeted by hackers in the early part of 2008, said the threat round-up report from US security firm Trend Micro.Cybercriminals launched SQL injection attacks on thousands of web pages belonging to some of the largest companies in the US, as well as state government agencies and educational institutions.Criminals are increasinlgy targeting affluent users

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As if identity theft wasn't scary enough, last month's string of fraudulent withdrawals from hundreds of accounts at local financial institutions gave area residents more reason to worry.Luckily, in some cases consumers can prevent scams with the right defensive measures.Some strategies should be obvious. For example, don't use "password" as a password, shred old bills, and don't keep pin numbers

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Last year, an Orange County man was rejected for a personal loan at his credit union. To his surprise, his credit report had been red-flagged because he was six months behind on mortgage payments on a $660,000 home in Oceanside. That was news to him. He had never bought a house in Oceanside. So he contacted police, who uncovered that his identity had been stolen to make the purchase in October

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SINGAPORE: More than 25 percent of banks in the Asia-Pacific region have been hit by attempts to steal online information over the last 12 months, but beefing up security is still not viewed as a prime concern, a study said on Monday. The survey by security software specialist ReadiMinds was conducted by Web and telephone polls across 11 economies including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Bangladesh,

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Millions of bank customers face a new threat to their money after it emerged yesterday that hackers had cracked PIN codes used in cash machines. Citibank machines in 7-Eleven convenience stores across America were the target of the biggest and most effective remote PIN code theft scam in US banking history between last autumn and this spring when at least $2 million (£1 million) was stolen.

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PARIS: France's banking regulator yesterday fined Societe Generale four million euros ($6.3m) over "grave deficiencies" in its internal controls that enabled a massive rogue trade scandal at the bank. The banking commission said it had also issued a formal warning to Societe Generale for failing to prevent the staggering losses of 4.9 billion euros, which it has blamed on 31-year-old trader

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PARIS: France's banking regulator yesterday fined Societe Generale four million euros ($6.3m) over "grave deficiencies" in its internal controls that enabled a massive rogue trade scandal at the bank. The banking commission said it had also issued a formal warning to Societe Generale for failing to prevent the staggering losses of 4.9 billion euros, which it has blamed on 31-year-old trader

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NEW DELHI: Three Nigerian nationals have been arrested by the police from South Extension market on Tuesday for allegedly running an international credit racket in the Capital. Seven cloned credit cards were seized from the accused, who used them to buy electronics and other goods from upscale markets in Delhi. More arrests in the racket are expected. The crime branch stepped up action on

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Mumbai, June 30 The Mumbai Police Crime Branch claims to have busted a credit card fraud worth over Rs 25 lakh after it arrested three accused who allegedly used credit card details of over 100 customers to purchase online airline tickets and mobile phone refills, and even to procure a bank loan. The arrested accused have been identified as Sandeep Mullick (25), a resident of Mazgaon, and Shakeel

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Maharashtra Police Academy (MPA) has set up modern computer laboratories to train police officials in countering growing cyber crimes.The Nasik-based MPA, which trains police officers and police sub inspectors, has set up two computer labs to train cops simultaneously in tackling cyber crimes.MPA's deputy director Ritesh Kumar said that the police officers and staff from all over the state would

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The FBI has caught a group of cyber thieves who are accused of hacking into Citibank's ATM system and stealing millions from unsuspecting customers. Metro Police says this crime proves even savvy consumers who guard their ATM cards can fall prey to the growing trend of cyber crime. The FBI says the hackers would target Citibank ATM's inside 7-11 stores. The bureau says the suspects didn't even

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High-profile banking scandals, rising worries over fraud and a sluggish economy are spurring closer monitoring of financial transactions — and a flurry of new security products.More than 80% of Americans in a recent Unisys poll are concerned about identity theft, more than a third extremely so. In another survey commissioned by risk management software vendor Actimize — a unit of Nice Systems (

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DUBAI -Dubai Police have arrested two persons allegedly linked with an international gang of credit card fraudsters, from a hotel in Deira on Monday, police sources said.The arrest follows a complaint filed by an Indian national whose credit card was allegedly skimmed in Dubai, and used in Pakistan for purchasing goods from a garment shop.Even though police sources confirmed the arrest, they

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Since the establishment of the first ATM networks in the early 1970s, ATMs have become an essential component of consumer banking technology that continues to evolve. Customers have come to rely on them for convenience and ease in accessing their financial institution and making transactions without the need for a human interface or bank teller. This type of service answers the demands of our

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Mumbai, July 2 The Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC) of the Mumbai Police is currently conducting investigations in a case of possible corporate data theft, in which a former employee of a leading IT company illegally logged into the firm’s data network and stole sensitive information by sending data files to his personal e-mail address. The company, which provides market research, data

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SPRINGFIELD - Freedom Credit Union is warning customers of a security breach whereby debit card data was electronically captured by individuals who may have used it in a counterfeit scheme. "We have been notified that your Debit card number was one of several obtained during the arrest and indictment of individuals in Eastern Europe and the United States," reads a June 27 letter from Freedom

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With India adding almost 8 million cellphone subscribers per month - and SMS being the largest-used service - hackers find vishing a great tool to target gullible users. Rakshita Kolaskar (name changed) was pleasantly surprised to receive a SMS recently, announcing her as the winner of a $3 million (around Rs 12.5 crore) prize from the Shell International Mobile Draw. The message prompted her to

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LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s Cyber Crime Wing claimed to have arrested a man for withdrawing Rs 2 million from various banks on a stolen computerised national identity card (CNIC) of a rickshaw driver.The FIA officials said Imtiaz Ahmed, a rickshaw driver and resident of Mozang, complained FIA that the officials of various banks were contacting him for the return of Rs 2

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Bollywood bigwigs Paresh Rawal and Mahesh Bhatt have lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC) of the Mumbai crime branch alleging that their fake profiles have been created on the social networking website Facebook. They said they apprehended that the profiles had been created for misuing them. Joint commissioner of police (crime) Rakesh Maria said the complaints were

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Pune June 29 Video tape shows fraudster wore helmet while withdrawing money The ATM card fraudsters who have been on the prowl for some time now have scalped yet another citizen. This time, the victim is Umesh Maini of Koregaon Park. An account holder of IDBI Bank, Maini is currently working in Finland. A fraudster got an ATM card by submitting a fake application at IDBI Bank in the name of Maini

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HUNDREDS of thousands of holidaymakers face having their credit cards rejected by shops, bars and restaurants this summer as card companies engage in an unprecedented crackdown against fraud, writes Nic Cicutti.Evidence is mounting of a record number of transactions being turned down by card machines across continental Europe in a bid to stamp down on fraudulent use abroad.Problems in obtaining

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NEW YORK - An old name in retail was hit by a modern scourge — a hack of its customers' credit card numbers — but didn't inform the consumers, revealing how data breaches might be heavily undercounted even with new notification laws. At least 51,000 records were exposed in the breach at the parent company of Montgomery Ward. The venerable Wards chain that began in 1872 went out of business in

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KOCHI: The portal of popular reality show ‘Idea Star Singer’ telecast on Asianet has been hacked. The High-tech Cell at Police Headquarters, Thiruvananthapuram, has started investigation into a complaint filed by Asianet regarding the issue.According to a complaint filed about one month ago, the portal of `Idea Star Singer’ has been hacked by someone.It has been found that some of the pictures

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Israeli hackers boasted Thursday about breaking into the website of Izz al-Din al-Qassam, Hamas’ military wing, which now displays a white screen and words in Arabic announcing technical difficulties. The hacker group, which calls itself Fanat al-Radical (the fanatical radicals), also said that it broke into additional terror organizations’ sites and those of various leftist movements. In a Ynet

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Turkish hacking group NetDevilz have successfully hacked the web sites for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).The two organizations are key to the running of the internet and the hacking attack is highly embarrassing to the site’s administrators. Visitors to the page were redirected to an atspace.com dotcom domain hosting

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Dutch police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of hacking on the internet and stealing the details of 50,000 credit cards.The man, detained in Maastricht on Tuesday (local time), is also alleged to have hacked into the server of a US gamemaker and stolen a copy of award-winning videogame Enemy Territory: Quake War - while it was in development.Police seized the man's computer and a gun

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Rightists on Thursday hacked into three Web sites associated with the Israeli Arab and Palestinan causes, and embedded on their pages an image of the Israeli flag, the words to the Israeli national anthem and the symbol of an outlawed ultra-rightist movement. The perpetrators hacked into the Web site of the Israeli Arab Balad party; Arabs48.com, an Arabic-language site; and Mahsom.com, which is

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Until the unthinkable happened, Adah Obande had always prided himself as a streetwise Nigerian. So streetwise he had never been a victim of pickpocket, burglary, room-to- let fraud, 419 scam or some high profile swindle. Caution was second nature to him; after all he was a security personnel trained to be one step ahead of criminals and their modus operandi. Both in his professional and private

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TWO MEN, a 45-year-old and a 21-year-old, both from Romania are in remand, suspected of stealing over €22,000 from ATMs in Limassol using fake credit cards.The two men were arrested yesterday, after police received information from a bank clerk that someone was trying to withdraw money from an ATM using a fake credit card. Police arrived at the scene immediately and saw the 45-year-old walking in

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China's intensified cyber warfare against India is becoming a serious threat to national security. The desire to possess 'electronic dominance' over India has compelled Chinese hackers to attack many crucial Indian websites and over the past one and a half years, they have mounted almost daily attacks on Indian computer networks - both government and private. In October 2007, for example, Chinese

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Author: Steve GoldIt seems that the US is not alone in being a hotbed of criminal actyivity when it comes to cloned debit cards, as reports are surfacing about eight people being rounded up in Canada in connection with a debit card cloning scam worth US$1 million.Frightening statistics about viruses are often flung into the ether by antivirus companies hoping to get a little media exposure. But

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The detainees included Yang Tsao-chin, the ring leader who was only released from jail last year for the same crime. Agents of the CIB under the National Police Agency (NPA) said that Yang could have teamed up with accomplices in some neighboring Southeast Asian nations for this international scheme. After receiving tips on the use of fake credit cards on the market, agents cooperated with

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Serious institutional deficiencies at HM Revenue and Customs were to blame for Britain's worst-ever breach of personal data security, when details of 25 million people were lost in the post, according to two reports.Investigators from the Independent Police Complaints Commission found that HMRC procedures for handling sensitive data were "woefully inadequate" and staff adopted a "muddle through"

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A metro area man says he's spent the last six months fighting identity theft. The victim of the crime was his newborn son. He believes the thief is local, and could strike again if they're not stopped. Before he could speak his first word, or take his first step, Devin Jones was a victim of identity theft. It all started when his parents filed their income taxes. Craig Jones says, "When we went

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Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh): They might not have the guns and the numbers to match the might of the world's biggest army in China, but determined Tibetans living in exile in India and other parts of the world are turning to the internet to wage a 'virtual' war against China. Scores of Tibetan websites and links have come up in the last couple of years to put forth demands of a 'free Tibet' and

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Web-savvy criminals are preying on consumers' financial information more and more often, security experts say. CHICAGO — The famously discreet Citadel Investment Group draws many of the shrewdest minds from Wall Street to Chicago. Shanghai too. Unknown people in that Chinese city cloned Citadel's website, set up a link for investor passwords and exposed the $17 billion hedge fund to a "grave risk

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Photobucket the world’s most popular photo sharing site according to Hitwise had its DNS records highjacked to return a hacked page courtesy of the NetDevilz hacking group, a Turkish web site defacement group most widely known for its defacement of the adult video site Redtube earlier this year. Photobucket users across the world are reporting minor outages of the service and problems when trying

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A currently active phishing campaign is circulating across Facebook end users’ walls, using already compromised accounts to post the phishing links, tricking the user into thinking it’s a legitimate friend sending the message in order to redirect them to a fake login page. The campaign is taking advantage of multiple typosquatted domains which are in a fast-flux state, namely, they respond to

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Chennai: A 20-year-old final year commerce student was arrested here on Tuesday for allegedly swindling credit card holders abroad to the tune of Rs.400,000, the police said. Bharat Raj Purohit was arrested from a northern suburb here following a complaint from ebay.com, an online trading company. He had been allegedly tipped off about the loopholes in the trade by two people based in Mumbai and

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MUMBAI: Three persons, including a Nigerian, were arrested by the Powai police on Friday for duping a shop selling mobile phones by using international credit cards. They were caught when they went to the same shop for the second time in less than three days. According to the police, the accused knew that the payments made through international credit cards were cleared after more than 24 hours

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Pune June 20 A senior Citibank officer and three customers were cheated of Rs 10 lakh in a credit card fraud. Sunil Nade (33), manager of the Financial Resource Management (FRM) division of Citibank’s east street branch, has lodged a complaint with the Bund Garden police station. The police have arrested a person identified as Bharat Kansukhbahi Soni of Mumbai. Nade and three of his bank

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CHENNAI: The arrest of two men involved in a forgery racket and their demonstration before police as to how a fake driving license can be produced within a matter of few minutes has once again brought to fore how ill-equipped authorities are in their fight against forgery. R Ramesh (36), a computer science diploma holder and his friend S Babu (28), on Saturday, stunned the Nungambakkam police by

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Thousands of bank customers have been defrauded of millions of dollars in one of the most elaborate automatic-teller theft operations ever seen in the Toronto area, police said yesterday, announcing multiple arrests and the dismantling of a network of what they termed "debit-card labs." Dozens of bank machines were compromised - possibly more - and investigators are still trying to assess the

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WASHINGTON -- With Wall Street executives handcuffed and paraded in front of TV cameras and dozens of alleged mortgage scam artists arrested in cities nationwide, the penalty phase of the mortgage meltdown has begun in earnest.The Justice Department said Thursday that more than 400 real estate industry players, including dozens in recent days, had been charged since March in a federal crackdown

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South African Minister for Finance and Economic Development reveals that a cybercrime group has defrauded the government with ZAR 199 million (GBP 12.8 million) through spyware infection-driven frauds. The police has made 32 arrests in connection with more than 80 fraud counts. Commenting on the case, CTO of IT security vendor Tier-3 Geoff Sweeney said the spyware attacks are difficult to stop in

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SOUTH BEND - The FBI was meeting with police and bank officials Wednesday to determine how many customers of northern Indiana financial institutions had money stolen by hackers in Spain, Russia, Nigeria and the Ukraine.“We're trying to determine what we have here,” said Special Agent Wendy Osborne, an FBI spokeswoman.The FBI got involved Monday when it received a report from Burns Harbor police,

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Consumers are losing millions of rand every year as credit card fraud skyrocketed in South Africa over the past three years, the SA Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC) said on Thursday.Head of Sabric's Commercial Crime branch, Susan Potgieter, was speaking at a media briefing in Durban.She said annual comparisons had revealed a drastic increase as criminals had been "tricking weak consumers"

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AHMEDABAD: Cyber hackers are ducking for cover after the nation-wide police crackdown following the busting of the online shopping fraud by the Ahmedabad police. After the arrest of their kingpins in Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmedabad, there are warnings posted on hacking websites against "indulging in 'carding' for the time being". "Carding in hackers' jargon stands for dealing in a huge database

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A server intrusion at 1st Source Bank in South Bend took place in MayA flurry of fraudulent ATM transactions in recent days in countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the Czech Republic may be tied to a server intrusion at 1st Source Bank in South Bend, Ind. So far, the fraud appears to have affected at least 200 consumers who belong to more than half a dozen banks and credit unions in the

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Following up on my story Wednesday about the purported hacking of a Citibank ATM server, and the subsequent arrest of two cash-rich Brooklyn men, a New York Citibank customer says he received two notices this month from Citibank warning about breaches of a "third party" ATM processing system. "These security breaches could have resulted in unauthorized access to your Citibank Banking Card number

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The Kansas Department of Administration is tightening its computer security standards an audit revealed Wednesday that state equipment slated for sale to the public contained confidential information.A review of the state surplus property program, which sells outdated equipment to the public, found seven of the 15 machines inspected contained information considered confidential under state and

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A computer intrusion into a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals led to two Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at least $750,000 in cash, according to federal prosecutors. The ATM crime spree is apparently the first to be publicly linked to the breach of a major U.S. bank's systems, experts say. "We've never

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AHMEDABAD: It's quite likely that a US citizen would have purchased latest mobile phones, superior-storage music players or other white goods without even knowing about it! You may be able to track down these goods anywhere in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. This is what the city Crime Branch officials are busy doing these days. The recent racket unearthed by Crime Branch has a 16-

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Chinese police have arrested a 19 year-old suspected of hacking into a seismology website and falsely warning of a major earthquake, according to state media.Identified only by the surname Chen, the teenager is thought to be from east China's Jiangsu province, the Beijing News reported.The report claimed that Chen had admitted to illegally entering the Guangxi province's seismology website at the

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MUMBAI: Akshay Raval, 20, is burning the midnight oil while his hostel roommates are fast asleep at 2 am. A computer engineering student from Gujarat, now in Pune, Raval is in touch with various such students from across the country. However, on the virtual world he becomes prime_hacky089 when he logs into hackers' communities and shares information such as latest codes, websites for safe payment

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GURGAON: A three-member job racket gang, operating in Delhi and Bangalore, was busted on Friday with the arrest of a 22-year-old youth, who claimed to be a final-year MBA student of Delhi University. The accused, Vidyut K Panda, landed in Gurgaon police net after one of his victims, Amit Garg, lodged an FIR alleging that the former cheated him of Rs 2.9 lakh promising to get him a job in a

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Over 30 customers of Le Meridien cheatedUnearthing a major credit card fraud, the Crime Branch of Pune police have arrested a gang of four persons for cheating people and creating duplicate credit cards. The gang is alleged to have cheated over 30 customers of Hotel Le Meridien to the tune of Rs 1 crore, according to the police. The gang was headed by 24 year-old Asif Zaidi Mirza of Borivli,

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friends.. i have not been able to update the blog for a few days as I have shifted my house and it will take a few days for me to get back.... Sorry

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Recruitment sites are being targeted by hackers in an attempt to spread malware among job hunters.E-mail security firm MessageLabs has discovered that a hacker has used a genuine Australian recruitment website to send an automated rich text format (RTF) e-mail that contained malicious program to a prospective employer.The e-mail contained an embedded Adobe PDF file - purportedly of the

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Jun. 12--Dear Action Line: I received an e-mail message, apparently from Tulsa Teachers Credit Union, that my account had been "compromised" by hackers and shut down by the credit union. It asked me to call a North Carolina (704) number to provide my TTCU routing and account numbers so the credit union could reactivate my account. I've been calling the credit union for three days to ask about

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Posted by George Hulme, Jun 12, 2008China today denied allegations from two U.S. congressmen that the nation had cracked its way into congressional computer systems. In fact, says China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, China doesn't even have the skills to do so.That's right. In this news story, the AP quoted Gang as saying "Is there any evidence? ... Do we have such advanced technology?

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In yet another incident of cyber crime related to PGI, the email ID of one of its doctors has been hacked. In his complaint to the police, Prof A. Rajwanshi, head of cytology and gynaecological pathology department, alleged that the hacker had been sending fake mails through his IDs (arvindrarajwanshi@hotmail.com and arvindrarajwanshi@gmail.com) to doctor’s acquaintances and relatives living

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Spear phishing is increasing, according to researchers with Verisign’s iDefense Rapid Response Team.Though it shares most of the name, spear phishing and a third variant, whaling, are significantly different than traditional phishing. The older (can it be called “old school?”) phishing involves sending out thousands or even millions of generic e-mails in hopes of fooling a small percentage of

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Dear Mr. Sood;Greetings from the United States.Thank you for your promotion of the news about fraud.Several people who have been cheated by this company in the US havebeen pushing for years to get these men indicted on charges.The Federal prosecutor and Postal service are investigating hundredsof frauds by these men - Ben Anderson and Meir Waknine.Our dream is close to realization but we need

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The folks who brought you the Great Firewall of China and the Golden Shield are wholly incapable of breaking into the cyber-fortress that is the U.S. House of Representatives. So they say.Accused by U.S. Reps Frank Wolf (R-Va.) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) of hacking into their office computers, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang played aw-shucks dumb at a news conference. Reports AP:Is there

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INDIANAPOLIS -The Internal Revenue Service wants you to know there may be a scam waiting in your e-mail inbox that looks very official but is dangerous to you and your computer."We're getting reports of people receiving an e-mail that appears to come from the IRS and tells recipients to respond to get their 2008 Economic Stimulus Refund," said Jodie Reynolds, IRS spokesperson for Indiana and

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Eight youths held on charge of misusing American Express cards of foreigners HYDERABAD: A credit card fraud having international ramifications and involving clandestine leakage of clients’ confidential data was busted by police here on Thursday with the arrest of eight youths. The development is likely to have an adverse impact on the call centres’ operations in Hydreabad, which of late got the

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Islamabad: A hoax email on behalf of slain former Pakistani Premier Benazir Bhutto's son Bilawal asking people to help him take custody of funds deposited by his late mother in a Dutch bank is currently being circulated, presumably by internet scamsters. The email, received by numerous people in the United Arab Emirates, promises to keep details of the recipients secret. It asks recipients to

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressman said Wednesday the FBI has found that four of his government computers have been hacked by sources working out of China.Rep. Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican, said that similar incidents — also originating from China — have taken place on computers of other members of the House and at least one House committee.A spokesman for Wolf said the four computers in his

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