Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
> UK banking fraud losses rise to £301.7m
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| UK banking losses due to fraud in the first half of 2008 hit £301.7m compared
>| to £263.6m in the same period last year, according to the latest figures from
>| UK banking association APACS.
>|
>| Fraud abroad made up 40 per cent of total card fraud losses reaching £121.2m
>| in the period, up 11 per cent of the £108.8m lost last year. That loss was
>| through tactics such as the use of counterfeit plastic cards with stolen PINs
>| on machines overseas that only check magnetic strips, not chips.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/uk_banking_fraud_soars/
>
One wonders where the stolen pins came from? Are any UK banks still
using Windows for online banking?
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