Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, new research shows.
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Banking fraud ‘moves to internet’ (BBC News)
Banking fraud ‘moves to internet’ (BBC News)
Heartless Web scam leaves brides at the altar (CNET)
A bridal show scheduled this week in Boston turns out to be a mean-spirited Web scam. The fraudsters may have made off with more than $100,000.
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Heartless Web scam leaves brides at the altar (CNET)
Man wanted over bank fraud (Oldham Advertiser)
Police are hunting a man in connection with a £1/4million bank fraud. They want to trace Rthammed Ashraf Chowdry, 42, known as Taz, after fraudsters stole £263,000 from the Natwest bank in Oldham.
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Man wanted over bank fraud (Oldham Advertiser)
Scam threat to NZ firms (Stuff)
In a typically 21st century crime, fraudsters have used scam emails and fake websites to steal more than ¬3 million (NZ$6m) of carbon credits from international businesses.
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Scam threat to NZ firms (Stuff)
Scam threat to NZ firms (Timaru Herald)
In a typically 21st century crime, fraudsters have used scam emails and fake websites to steal more than €3 million (NZ$6m) of carbon credits from international businesses.
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Scam threat to NZ firms (Timaru Herald)
Carbon credit scam threatens NZ firms (Stuff)
In a typically 21st century crime, fraudsters have used scam emails and fake websites to steal more than 3 million (NZ$6m) of carbon credits from international businesses.
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Carbon credit scam threatens NZ firms (Stuff)
Study warns of growing "green fraud" risk (vnunet.com)
BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen , Monday 1 February 2010 at 00:15:00 PwC report predicts burgeoning clean tech industries will be increasingly targeted by fraudsters Wherever there is commercial opportunity, criminality soon follows. That is the somewhat dispiriting conclusion...
Internet scam hits Kiwis seeking accomodation (Otago Daily Times)
An international internet scam has caught several New Zealanders and cost them money. The fraudsters offer fake accommodation and trick victims into sending bond and rent money after targeting flat-finder websites worldwide.
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