Albert Gonzales, 28, is charged with the largest case of credit and debit card theft in US history. Gonzales, from Miami, Florida, is already in jail for hacking into the databases of retail stores and stealing...
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"I’ve been thinking a lot about how this economic downturn (or if you’re in the media and you want to scare everyone, we can call it a CRISIS or a CRASH!) will effect the way we act as regular, everyday...
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Good news for Washington Mutual customers for now.""Life is exactly as it was for Washington Mutual customers on Friday as it was on Thursday except they are now backed by a bigger, stronger bank," says...
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Eleven people including an informant of the Secret Service have been charged for stealing more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers. These people have also been charged with identity theft for the act. It...
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In light of the biggest identity theft case ever prosecuted in America, the spotlight is being turned on just how secure is our credit and debit card information? " The question is a simple one...
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An interesting idea. Would a loaded card be a dangerous item to carry around in sketchier areas though?"The B.C. government plans to issue direct-debit cards to more than 20,000 welfare recipients who don't...
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Wow, this guy certainly doesn't even look like he's over 18, let alone a criminal mastermind."A Canadian bank robber who pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing an antique jewellery piece made for a 19th-century Austrian empress also revealed he was funding Kurdish rebels in...
The 1939 Worlds Fair titled "Tomorrowland" touted Technology will make life easier for Humans in the Future, one wonders if Scientists then knew how technological advances would make it easier for...
"Little by little, credit card skimming by restaurant table waiting staff is a problem creeping into some of the finer restaurants.
This practice of “skimming”, where the waiter has the equipment to be able...
The second massive credit card scam in the news today. Speculation arose that the Tamil Tigers were somehow involved, but there is no proof of that at this point."Thousands of motorists who use a bank card to buy petrol are thought to have lost millions of pounds in an...
Yet another big company caught in the act of slipshod information management. One would think that a company would pay closer attention to how such items as credit card numbers and medical records were disposed of, but evidently one would be wrong:"Texas Attorney General Greg...
Greylock is putting some scratch into Payoneer. These guys are doing some interesting stuff:"Founded in early 2005, New York-based Payoneer has raised $4M in Series A funding. Greylock Partners led the deal, and was joined by seed backer Crossbar Capital plus some angels."
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The Bank of Montreal alerted police to the men after observing suspicious activity in a number of accounts. "Protect your pin" doesn't even begin to cover it... "Police seized more than $100,000 cash, a laptop, a...
created by Kaitlin | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 734 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
When was the last time anyone drags a checkbook around with them every time they leave the house and run errands? OK, if one doesn’t have American Express, one still needs a checkbook for an outing at COSTCO,...
"If you blinked yesterday you missed it. Iran has moved over to a Euro based economy as far as it's foreign exchange and various other functions are concerned. While the US media was busy obsessing over the nature...
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