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Burglars Sell Stolen Goods To Victims Online
News Victims of burglary can post details of their stolen goods at TheBurglar.com. The site acts as the middleman between the "finder" and the victim: it receives the agreed reward and keeps it until the receiver of the goods has verified their shipment.
[October 10, 2000, 15:51]
Service Offers Protection From Stolen Goods Online
News A new service was launched on Thursday that allows buyers and sellers on online auction houses to check if goods they're trading have been stolen. The idea is that a buyer can enter the serial number or international mobile equipment identity (IMEI...
[July 6, 2006, 17:20]
Police To Sell Off Missing Goods Online
News Police forces around the UK plan to put stolen goods on a Web site where they can be reclaimed by a rightful owner or auctioned off to the highest bidder. We think that this solution will be of great interest to any organisation which handles lost...
[November 21, 2000, 16:12]
Lost Property Costs Cabinet Office £100,000
News More than £100,000 worth of electrical goods have been stolen from the Cabinet Office and Downing Street in the last four years. The list of mislaid goods dates back to 1997, the year in which Labour came to power.
[January 31, 2002, 17:48]
Gamer Wins Back Virtual Swag
News An online gaming company in China was ordered to return a player's virtual goods that had been hacked and stolen. The court in Beijing ruled on 18 December, 2003 that Beijing Artic Ice Technology Development must return the virtual goods to the...
[December 29, 2003, 10:50]
Scam Tricks Users Into 'stealing'
News But the victim told MSNBC that others had fallen for the scam, meaning the buyer was left holding stolen property; an anonymous victim had a fraudulent charge on their credit card account; a Web merchant had delivered stolen goods; and the...
[January 26, 2000, 9:24]
£9.6m Of Software Stolen From MS Scottish Factory
News If anybody is offered cheap UK versions of Encarta without documentation, they are buying stolen goods," said Richard Teversham, Microsoft's consumer product marketing manager. What is of equal concern to Microsoft is that over 200,000 Certificates...
[November 21, 1997, 16:12]
Consumers Warned Over Growing Internet Card Fraud
News Careless shoppers are contributing to an annual £110m fraud bill from criminals who use stolen credit card details to purchase high-value goods over the Internet and phone. A spokesman for the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said it is pleased at...
[November 11, 2003, 14:45]
Enigma Machine Sent To Jeremy Paxman
News As far as I know I haven't got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods," he told the Mirror. Jeremy Paxman got a bit of a shock when he opened his post Tuesday: the UK's top TV journalist was sent the stolen Enigma machine in a parcel, which...
[October 18, 2000, 9:13]
Four In Court Over Massive Mobile Theft
News They have all pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiring to commit the burglary, and also deny two alternative charges of handling stolen goods. Some 25,000 WAP-enabled Samsung phones -- worth over £4m -- were stolen from a warehouse in Hayes...
[September 3, 2002, 14:47]
Tesco To Track Milk Deliveries By RFID
News These began in 2003 and involved the use of disposable tags to track the high-value goods most susceptible to being stolen by shoplifters, including razor blades and mobile phones. The move signals the next phase of Tesco's RFID plans, which...
[June 2, 2006, 9:40]
Enigma Thief Will Be Found, Says Bletchley Director
News Despite the conviction in 2001 of Dennis Yates, from Sandiacre near Derby, for handling stolen goods, the search goes on for the "mastermind" on whose behalf the antiques dealer acted. The mastermind behind the theft of a WW2 German Enigma encoding...
[August 11, 2003, 13:35]
Microsoft Adds RFID To Stock Management Software
News Wal-Mart and the US Defense Department have also begun big RFID projects with the expectation the technology will help prevent goods from being lost or stolen. KiMs, which was already using Axapta, is using the new software to monitor pallets or...
[January 26, 2004, 14:55]
ID Theft Gang Thwarts Police With Encryption
News The ID thieves used stolen credit card numbers and created false identities to buy high-end electronics and other goods, which they then resold on eBay. Figures released by Sainsbury's Bank last week found that more than four million UK citizens...
[December 18, 2006, 11:16]
Laid-off Techies Swiping Goods On Way Out
News One of Monberg's responsibilities is to track down and reclaim the stolen goods. They cleaned up," Dimoff said of employees who spirited away the goods. Because of the distinction insurance agents make, some security experts refer to tech gadgets...
[September 25, 2001, 13:20]
Identity Theft Remains A Growing Problem
News The stolen information can be used to take out a loan or even to buy goods and services on credit, the company said. In the past year, around seven million Americans became victims of fraud after their identities were stolen, which is a 79 percent...
[July 21, 2003, 17:59]
Trojan Horse Defrauds Online Shoppers
News When customers get to the check out section, they select the WebMoney method of payment, enter a code, and the price of the goods is deducted from their account. Once the Trojan has found the files, it transfers the stolen e-wallet details to an...
[May 18, 2001, 14:08]
Web Shoppers' New Option: Bill Me Later
News Consumers will be able to purchase goods online without having to use a credit card, which should appeal to those who don't have credit cards or who are reluctant to use them online. The company is liable for transactions where a consumer receives...
[October 2, 2002, 8:13]
Police Arrest Nine Men Over £3m Mobile Raid
News The nine men were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to handle stolen goods. The arrests come only days after insurers for Hawk Precision Logistics -- from whose warehouse the phones were stolen -- offered a £100,000 reward for information about...
[July 6, 2001, 15:54]
Employees To Be Billed For Personal Internet Use?
News No company wants to be involved in trafficking stolen goods and storing illegal digital material is an extension of this," said Turner. Exinda Networks claims to have developed a unique system that allows a company to monitor exactly which Web...
[February 1, 2005, 14:55]
