Cash machine fraud nearly doubles
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Cash machine fraud increases by 85% to Â£61m during the past year, a banking payment body says.
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Two mid-level D.C. government employees used phony paperwork to collect more than $16 million from illegal tax refunds, avoiding detection for at least three years while issuing more than 40 checks cashed by friends and family members in on the scam, prosecutors said yesterday.
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Two former employees were arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing more than &#36;1.9 million from the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce though a check-altering scheme.
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More than 3.5 million U.S. adults lost money to phishing scams and online identity theft in the 12-month period that ended in August, a 57% increase over the previous year.
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For the first time, Americans' use of credit cards, debit cards and other electronic bill paying has eclipsed paper checks.
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Ten employees have been caught faking orders in order to receive kickbacks, Japanese electronics maker NEC disclosed on Tuesday. In total, the ten made over $4.1 million on $18 million in forged orders.
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When it comes to credit card abuse, your wallet may not be the only victim.
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OSLO, Norway - Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained.  It was still full of cash. Enough to buy a house and take a luxury vacation.
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A Pennsylvania thief uses a default master passcode to get extra cash from a grocery store ATM machine. Police are baffled but Threat Level readers have an idea.
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A multi-million dollar fraud ring has been cracked in Nigeria involving counterfeit cheques, say investigators.
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Video surveillance has become a fact of everyday life. Each time you withdraw cash from the corner ATM, travel through an airport or visit a national monument, your image is probably being recorded.
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ALBUQUERQUE - A man pulled much more than a dollar from his pocket when he went to pay for items at a convenience store here, police said.
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SEEKONK -- With help from US Secret Service agents, Stop &amp; Shop Supermarket Cos. executives scrambled yesterday to determine how many consumers may have had their credit and debit card data stolen by high-tech thieves who apparently broke into checkout-line card readers and planted the equivalent of bugs to steal information.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - A thief used a hook and line not to snag fish, but to remove bags of cash from a bank's night deposit box, police said.  Police would not say how much money they believe was taken, but think the thief made off with 11 deposit bags, Bloomington police Sgt.
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Credit cards aren't the only way to get cash back.
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Online tricksters looking to dupe consumers out of credit card numbers and other personal information have netted about $500 million from their hapless victims in the US, a national study released Wednesday showed.
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It takes more than just collecting a check every month.