Ireland blocks 13 countries after net scams
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THE REPUBLIC of Ireland is to block direct dial telephone calls to 13 countries in an effort to crack down on growing internet scams.
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Some 28 people are arrested in a global operation against a website allegedly involved in identity fraud.
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Alternative technologies are once again blocked in Europe.
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Three out of four Europeans are worried about posting their personal information on the Internet.
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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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In an effort to stem dialup modem fraud, Ireland blocks phone calls to 13 locations, including several South Pacific islands and the entire nation of Mauritania. Operators must verify numbers dialed to these locations before connecting the calls.
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For immigration purposes, apparently Irish law enforcement agencies closed an â¬18m deal on Wednesday to procure digital fingerprinting technology from the private sector.â¦
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Ireland has become the first country on earth to cut off direct-dialed calls to entire nations in a bid to crack down on Internet-based fraud.
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Several antispam organizations have been targeted by an attempt to knock them offline.
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CALLS for an all-Ireland mobile phone tariff were made yesterday after plans to slash cross-border roaming charges by up to 70 per cent were backed by EU ministers.   Millions of mobile phone users across 27 member states will benefit from the new rules adopted by the EU Telecoms Council.
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The European Commission announces plans to crack down on bogus 'holiday club' scams.
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Ireland is taking &quot;extraordinary&quot; measures to protect Internet users from rogue auto-dialer programs that hijack their modems and run up long-distance phone charges, the country&#39;s telecom regulator says.
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p2pnet.net News:- A business in Ireland found it had unknowingly racked up nearly $15,000 in calls. Other modem users found they had charges for calls to the South Pacific.
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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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Ireland dumped miles for kilometres on Thursday with little mourning but plenty of ridicule as new speed signs popped up everywhere from motorways to mud tracks.
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Email scams from fake foreign officials are still a potent Internet problem.
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Nothing rotten in Denmark Sixty four million people now have broadband access across the 25 countries of the EU, but Ireland remains near the bottom of the pile in terms of penetration.â¦