Fifteen persons have been arrested for indulging in credit card fraud by obtaining card details of customers from some petrol bunks in the city. […] Speaking to mediapersons here on Friday, Commissioner of Police T. Rajendran said one gang, headed by Manoj Kumar of Pallikaranai, had been operating in Chennai and other parts of the…
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In: Man held for duping people at ATMs
Sindhi Camp police have arrested the supervisor of a security company — which provides guards to the banks on charges of duping many people by tampering ATMs. The accused duped several people who used ATMs. He used to either ask for help or “assist” ATM users and would manage to get their PIN in the…
Bulgarians caught installing skimmer in Turkey
Here’s yet another case involving Bulgarians: Novinite reports: Turkish media also report on the arrest of two Bulgarian nationals, suspected in ATM fraud. The Istanbul police has identified the two as Petko Stefanov, 36, and Vladimir Dimitrov, 33. They made the arrest after receiving a tip from employees servicing an ATM in the Fatih district,…
Playing catch-up in Australia
Outdated banking technology has made Australia a prime target for international ATM skimming gangs, according to police. Tens of millions of dollars are lost in Australia each year as a result of card skimming. The problem is that Australia is still using magnetic strips, rather than the ‘chip and PIN’ technology in other countries, and…
Nl: Confidential criminal case files stolen from judge on train
A judge of the Dutch Supreme Court reported that confidential records on two criminal cases were stolen while he was on a train earlier this week. If I understand the translation correctly, he had placed the files in the luggage rack. Here’s a link to the story in Dutch: http://www.elsevier.mobi/pl/svt/si/elsevier/po/opnl/dk/elsevier.09-23-2010.0472p0000/sc/els_nieuws/ms/8vfRNArLu4/r/1285267694/pa/159497/uid/
AU: Security breached as former prostitute pilfers Einfeld police transcript
Oh those pesky contractors. Here’s a case making some waves in Australia because it involves a scandal and failure to run background checks. Natasha Wallace reports: It took a former prostitute just a few days to pilfer sensitive computer files and find what she wanted: the nine-page police interview of the disgraced former judge Marcus Einfeld….