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High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
News The number of Internet users claiming to have fallen victim to premium-rate phone charge fraud has risen sharply, according to industry regulator ICSTIS. Diallers are downloaded onto Web users' computers to allow access to pay-per-view sites, such...
[June 23, 2004, 15:25]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
Talkback I too have fallen victim , to the grand sum of £153. I was told BT could do nothing but put a bar on premium charge numbers , ok , but who will pay my bill ?
[September 29, 2004, 16:05]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
Talkback In spite of the so-called protection, I got the dialler and it dialled the premium rate number without me knowing. I'm a McAfee viruscan subscriber and I use Wanadoo Anytime dialup. Both companies say it's my responsibility.
[October 15, 2004, 17:08]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
Talkback I'm an NTL customer and they are not interested, I was apparantly connected to a Spanish Porn Site without my knowlege and it's cost me £80.00. They told me to contact ICSTIS who would give me a reference number, they would then use this reference...
[November 18, 2004, 12:56]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
Talkback What I fail to understand is if BT have taken money incorrectly from telephone accounts and paid it to these scam merchants bank accounts - why do individuals have to recover it from the scam merchants when we have no details or means of...
[July 25, 2004, 13:26]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
Talkback My regular monthly BT bill is £23.00 - had this been my bank they would not have allowed such an unusual sum to have been incurred - BT on the otherhand have no such interest in protecting their customers from Fraud.
[December 17, 2004, 11:38]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
Talkback Our eldest son downloaded free music and from then on each time we logged on to the net it was charged to a premium rate sex line. We are english living in Greece. The bill was over 500 euros to be paid to ote the Greek telephone company.
[December 22, 2004, 22:39]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
Talkback i have been scammed by premium rate diallers connecting me to a spanish porn site.i have been charged 54 pounds for 4 calls made in the space of 2 weeks! i was unaware of this and feel helpless because bt said all i could do was report it to ictis...
[September 18, 2004, 12:39]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
Talkback I too have had a problem in July 2004 with a Premium Rate dialer somehow being installed without my knowledge and it them diverting me to a premium line for 1 hour costing me over £60. I tried to colplain to ICSTIS on line but the will not accept...
[September 5, 2004, 15:45]
High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud
Talkback Yes I,m another victim and it happened in 1993 to the tune of £360+ I have a name and address of the low life who has caused this misery and have tried to get our hard earned money back without joy. I would like to know if anybody and there were...
[February 8, 2005, 10:11]
Click fraud scams on the increase
News According to a report published by click-fraud reporting service Click Forensics, the click fraud rate for tier one search providers, including Google and Yahoo, rose from 12.1 percent in the first quarter of the year to 12.8 percent in the second...
[July 17, 2006, 17:40]
Fraud buck will stop with network operators
News Although ICSTIS saw a 75 percent drop in complaints last year, after it was granted stronger powers to fight fraud, the regulator still wants to "stimulate collective action in the telecoms industry" to "drive crooks out of the market", said...
[July 10, 2006, 17:00]
Yahoo appoints click fraud tsar
News Google claims that its discard rate is less than 10 percent and that its click fraud rate is in the single digits, or 9 percent or less. Click Forensics, which provides click fraud services and operates a Click Fraud Index survey of advertisers and...
[March 22, 2007, 9:24]
HMRC still owed millions by EDS
News The PAC report says the tax-credit system continues to suffer the "highest rate of error and fraud in central government", with about £1bn of tax credits still being lost to fraud and error each year.
[February 6, 2008, 9:40]
Growing number of PCs hit by ID fraud malware
News More than 10 million internet users worldwide were hit with identity fraud-related malware last year, according to a new estimate from Panda Security. The number of computers infected with active programs designed to steal personally identifiable...
[March 11, 2009, 12:05]
E-voting harbours 'major security problems'
News The fear of election fraud should have election officials talking to accountants, for example. But an accountant would know that there is only one reason for a double or triple set of books, and that is fraud.
[July 30, 2004, 13:55]
Google shares plunge after growth warning
News Trademark, click-fraud lawsuits Google's core keyword-search ad business has been targeted by lawsuits over alleged trademark infringement and click fraud. The company would have beat analysts' estimates if not for a higher-than-expected tax rate...
[March 1, 2006, 9:30]
Fraud still troubling eBay users
News Sports memorabilia has had a lot of fraudulent activity for years," Pursglove said, noting that such items also have a high fraud rate in the offline auction world. While not a new issue, online auction fraud is increasingly important for eBay as...
[July 1, 2002, 12:36]
UK falling victim to foreign card fraud
News While the three years since chip and PIN's introduction have seen a cut in the UK's card-fraud rate, criminals in European countries — where the technology has yet to be rolled out — are siphoning millions of pounds from UK consumers' cards.
[October 2, 2008, 8:11]
SCO reveals Linux legal targets
Talkback Hopefully McBride, Stowell, and Sontag can get adjoining prison cells for their rolews in this stock fraud. Thank goodness that at their present rate, they will burn through their money within 7 quarters and go away for good.
[March 3, 2004, 19:30]
