Tide is Turning against Gangs of Euro Forgers
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On a table in central Sofia lie three high-value banknotes, euros and dollars, worth more than 500.
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In ancient Rome, traitors were tossed off the city&#39;s Capitoline Hill. It is on that very site that 25 European leaders plan to sign the EU constitution on Friday - and they can only hope the document isn&#39;t destined for a similar, ignominious fate.
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Bookies sans frontiÃ¨res German and Sweden are to be hauled over the coals by EU competition regulators for stopping online gaming firms entering their markets.â¦
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European Union countries are doing too  little to enforce EU rules banning unsolicited emails, or spam,  which are becoming increasingly fraudulent and criminal, the  European Commission said on Monday.
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With the European economy on the upswing, companies and governments are shrugging off the dollar's renewed slide against the euro this week _ a phenomenon once dreaded as potential poison for the continent's ...Comment
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Law enforcement authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have arrested 28 people on suspicion of operating Web sites that were allegedly designed to steal, sell and forge credit cards and identification documents.
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Before the 10 countries that joined the European Union this year can adopt the euro as their currency, they have to spell it correctly.
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With interest rates on hold, Thursday's European Central Bank meeting will draw scrutiny for President Jean-Claude Trichet's remarks on the euro amid speculation that the bank may intervene in currency markets to halt its rapid climb.
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An 11bn euro bond trade by traders at  Citigroup last year becomes the subject of a German criminal investigation.
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Signs of shaky economies in France and Germany have sharpened worries about Europe's less-than-robust recovery &#151; and underscored the struggle to shake up regulation-clogged economies in countries that use the euro.
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SCHEVENINGEN, Netherlands - Before the 10 countries that joined the European Union this year can adopt the euro as their currency, they have to spell it correctly.    The new threat to euro-zone stability surfaced unexpectedly Saturday at a meeting of finance ministers from the 25 European Union countries...
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), and  Visa International have banded together in an attempt to combat phishing attacks.
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(InfoWorld) - Italy has become the latest country to clamp down on phishing, with authorities there arresting 26 people for an alleged scam to swindle bank customers. According to a statement by one of those arrested, the scam involved sending fraudulent e-mails that appeared to come from Poste Italiane, the country's postal operator, which also offers bank accounts, insurance and loans, according to a news release (in Italian) from the Guardia di Finanza, which handles financial crimes. The e-mails urged victims to hand over sensitive financial information, which was then used to draw money from their accounts, the finance authority said. Eighteen of those arrested are Italian citizens, with the remainder from Eastern European countries. Phishing scamsÂ are generally difficult to trace, since the fraudulent e-mails are often sent from computers that have been hacked. Those computers may also be in different countries than the hackers and the victims. But fraud management officials from Poste Italiane and the finance authority monitored transaction papers used to empty the accounts, initially in the Milan area and then throughout the country, they said. Countries around the world have been trying to clamp down on phishing as the number of Web sites used to entrap victims continues to increase. Police in Japan made theirÂ first arrest for phishingÂ early last year. The person was accused of illegally obtaining IDs and passwords for Yahoo Auctions and using them to resell goods worth tens of thousands of dollars. At around the same time,Â authorities in Bulgaria arrestedÂ eight people for phishing scam that targeted users of Microsoft's MSN service. Phishing-related arrests have also been made in the United States. Â
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The European Central Bank and European finance ministers are unhappy with the Euro&#39;s surge. To this end, they vowed to closely monitoring exchange rate swings.
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Driven by Christmas shopping fever and growing hunger for material goods, Europeans in former communist states are putting aside a historic aversion to taking out loans as their spending habits change and a new generation of debtors takes root.
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Dangerous new ways to try to steal your money are in progress.
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Last Wednesday in Brussels, a working group comprised of leading European information privacy officials concluded that a major global financial transaction processing organization based in Belgium may have violated EU law in complying with subpoenas from the US Treasury Dept. for information.