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Fraudster Targets AOL Users In Credit Card Scam
News A fraudster intent on collecting credit card details set up a fake AOL Web site in order to gather financial details of subscribers. AOL, he said, treats the matter very seriously and attempts to educate users to avoid falling into the fraudster's...
[May 23, 2001, 11:30]
EBay Fraudster Jailed
News An eBay fraudster who used false identities to sell fake Manchester United goods through the online auction site has been jailed and ordered to return £70,000 to his victims. Simon Edward Hurley from Coulsdon in Surrey was sentenced at Croydon
[October 4, 2005, 17:30]
Photos: Famous Fraudster Hits Out At ID Cards
News Frank Abagnale, a one-time fraudster who now works with law-enforcement agencies, strongly criticised the UK ID cards scheme at the RSA Conference Europe 2007 on Wednesday. At a press Q&A session before his keynote, Abagnale said that one weak...
[October 25, 2007, 13:25]
Cash Reward Offered For Arrest Of Sex.com Fraudster
News A $50,000 reward is being offered for the arrest of sex.com fraudster Stephen Cohen, who is believed to have fled the US after failing to attend numerous court appearances for illegally cybersquatting the domain name.
[June 1, 2001, 17:04]
Catching Up With A Famous Fraudster
News Played by Leonardo DeCaprio in the Steven Spielberg-directed film Catch Me If You Can, one-time fraudster Frank Abagnale knows a thing or two about security systems. During his time on the wrong side of the law, Abagnale posed as an airline pilot...
[November 1, 2007, 11:37]
Famous Fraudster To Speak At Security Show
News After years spent masquerading in different guises, including a pilot and a doctor, a spell in jail eventually led the one time fraudster to leave his life of crime and re-invent himself as a respected authority on forgery, embezzlement and secure...
[August 2, 2007, 16:12]
EBay Fraudster Jailed
Talkback Good work for nicking him, but they're man utd fans - how much sympathy can you have for them
[October 6, 2005, 12:51]
Singapore Jails Software Fraudster
News A Singapore court has jailed a university student for four months after finding him guilty of selling fake copies of Microsoft software. Ang Chiong Teck, a 26 year old computer sciences student, imported counterfeit Microsoft software from Hong...
[January 11, 2006, 12:15]
Online Auction Fraudster Jailed
News In one of the toughest sentences for online auction fraud, a US man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for defrauding hundreds of shoppers on eBay and Yahoo! auction sites. Thomas Houser was sentenced this week after pleading guilty to one count...
[July 18, 2002, 9:36]
Forbes Rich List Fall Prey To High-tech Fraudster
News US authorities claim to have cracked a bizarre case of identity theft in which a New York City busboy used high-tech equipment to steal millions from more than 200 of Forbes Magazine's "Richest People in America".
[March 20, 2001, 14:04]
Sex.com Fraudster Blows Court Appearance
News Former owner of the sex.com Web site is facing a bench warrant for his arrest after failing to appear before a US District Court, last Wednesday Stephen Cohen gained control of the popular URL in 1995 after issuing a forged consent from Gary Kremen...
[March 6, 2001, 14:40]
Internet Fraudster Deceives Many
News Disguised as a representative of a well-known Internet Service Provider, a racketeer has allegedly ripped off over 100 customers, tricking them in to handing over cash for services which are normally free.
[December 8, 2000, 9:13]
Fraudsters Swipe 2,000 UK Credit Card Details
News ZDNet UK sister site Silicon.com was contacted by one customer of the Clydesdale Bank who was told that her MasterCard details, along with those of 2,000 other people, were "in the hands of a fraudster".
[April 26, 2006, 12:10]
Losing Patience With EBay
Blog My first winning bidder was a straightforward fraudster and, luckily, a transparent fraudster at that. We all love it for buying and selling general tat, but I've been driven round the bend recently by trying to sell a high value item on eBay.
[August 28, 2007, 15:27]
Anti-fraud Service Blacklists PC Hardware
News And to further hide tracks, the fraudster often takes his winnings and plays against more of his aliases. A fraudster creates a poker account in the name of a credit card owner. In the old west, card cheats got shot.
[July 31, 2006, 9:40]
RSA Looks To Drown Phishers In Data Flood
News The fraudster may have obtained 30 genuine credentials out of 300 - we are trying to make it less worthwhile and more risky for the fraudster," Bennett told ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet Australia on Thursday.
[March 31, 2006, 9:55]
Barclays Rolls Out Chip And PIN For The Home
News Davis said the users setting up third-party transactions have been targeted because, if a fraudster gets hold of a customer's bank details, for example from a phishing email, then there is very little the crook can do, unless they can pay money to...
[April 19, 2007, 11:12]
Highlights Of The RSA Conference Europe 2007
News Famous 1960s fraudster and subject of the film Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale delivered the closing keynote address at the show. Vying to overtake the Infosecurity show as the must-attend event for UK security professionals, the RSA Conference...
[October 24, 2007, 15:57]
Benefit Frauds Caught In The Net
News The fight against benefit cheats went online Tuesday as the government introduces 'Report a Fraudster' by email. The Targeting Fraud Web site allows people to fill in an online form to report benefit fraud.
[May 30, 2000, 13:26]
Companies Urged To Move Beyond Passwords
Talkback The fraudster can match everything but he can never match the biometric peculiarities. Biometrics tokens are the safest bet for prevention of identity theft and various frauds. The most widely used biometric tokens include those of fingerprints...
[September 16, 2005, 18:49]
