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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]
MobiGuard
Downloads You can contact the finder, or turn the information over to Police to trace the SIM owner and lay charges for theft or receipt of stolen goods. MobiGuard disables a lost or stolen mobile via SMS, or if the SIM card is changed.
[January 17, 2006, 6:00]
£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]
MAPPY
Downloads Exactly like the original arcade version.Unique game play involving trampolines and slamming doors your enemies.Move MAPPY with the stylus, or use the directional pad.TIPS & TRICKSMappy gets bonus points for collecting consecutive pairs of stolen...
[May 25, 2005, 8:00]
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]
Police fund tracking software for at-risk laptops
News We will also be gathering intelligence about known offenders and the venues they are using to sell on stolen goods and who buys them," said Anderson. The police force is paying for licences for Absolute Software's ComputraceOne, which connects the...
[October 15, 2008, 15:58]
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]
How I Earn £14,246 A Week
Blog Parcel mules tend to be recruited once and may even be paid, but often they are not, which means that one person has laundered one item and may have unwittingly sent one consignment of stolen goods/drugs in the post.
[October 27, 2008, 7:15]
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]
Police raid chip and PIN hacking operation
News These are then used to create fake magnetic stripe cards containing the stolen card details, which can be used to withdraw money from cash machines or pay for goods in shops in countries that have yet to roll out chip and PIN technology.
[August 15, 2008, 9:28]
