Can we have our £80 billion back?
Friday the 13th October 1307 is supposed to be the origins of the unluckiest date, and there is good reason for it, because on this day an alliance between Pope Clement V and King Philip IV of France smashed the organisation known as the Knights Templar.
Many people will know of this because of the film [...]
The cost of copying
In Canada there is a new copyright law going through the process needed, which could mean that anyone found copying copyrighted work will no longer have to face a potential fine of a $100,000, in fact with the limitations, it may only be as much as $500!
This is because the law is changing the statutory [...]
ING offers safer online banking
ING Direct is launching a nice little piece of software which is going to help the security between their website and their customer’s computer.
This means that even if the computer has been infected with a programme such as malware or spyware, which is great for all computer users as this adds another level of security [...]
Looking after the pennies
There is that saying where looking after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves. Well one man in the US did just that and has allegedly fleeced banks out of $50,000 a few cents at a time.
Anyone who has opened up a PayPal account will know that they deposit a small amount into [...]
The Pentagon misplaces $15 Billion
Everyone who is in charge of any organisation whether it is large or small, private or publicly funded, always feels a little bit of anxiety so we can only imagine how the person in charge of the Pentagon feels when the auditors come back saying that there is $15 billion missing!
But we should not be [...]
Banks using even more surveillance
Fortunately for us the humble consumer this time the banks are not snooping in on what we are doing, mind you having said that they do monitor absolutely everything we do on accounts!
The banks are now monitoring their own staff, this sort of surveillance could mean checking their emails, listening in on their phone calls, [...]
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 [...]
Save yourself from Phishing expeditions
There is no doubt that sooner or later you will be getting an email from your bank regarding a security issue, but is this really from your bank or just someone pretending to be your bank?
This practice has become known to us as Phishing and is becoming a valuable to all sorts of fraudsters who [...]
Some browsers to be blocked by PayPal
In an attempt to prevent online fraud and other security issues, the online payment processing business PayPal will introducing browser blocking this would prevent that user from accessing the PayPal website.
This will not be a complete shutout for PayPal users because they will be getting a warning first, it will be something like a warning [...]
Women more likely to give personal details
It’s a shocking thought, but in a recent survey carried out just outside Liverpool Street station in London commuters were asked about the personal details. Like any legitimate survey that you would normally see where ask about phones and electrical suppliers etc.
But this survey was different the interviewers were fake, and the survey was a [...]
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 [...]
Mastercard the best corporate card
For the many executives out there who like their expenses and corporate cards they could no better than the Mastercard for it has become the Best Corporate Cards and Expense Service Provider for the second year running by the magazine Global Finance Magazine.
This makes Mastercard the card of choice for many companies who issue them [...]
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 [...]
Banks need to be more secure
We have heard a lot recently about data loses, these were mainly by large government organisations like the DVLA, but this also happens in the private sector where details of bank customers have been found in bins and credit cards are routinely swiped by staff in stores and restaurants in order for them to use [...]
January 30, 2008Data 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 [...]
Societe Generale suffer $7.2 billion trader fraud
When Nick Leeson broke Barings Bank in 1995, it was thought that no trader would be able to run up loses of $1.30 billion again, and yet a similar thing has happened involving the French bank Societe Generale, it would appear that one of their traders has managed to lose the bank around $7.2 billion.
And [...]
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 [...]