Barclays boss falls victim to ID fraud
A fraudster posing as the chairman of Barclays stole £10,000 from the bank after tricking a member of staff into sending him a credit card, it emerged today.
The conman duped call centre staff into issuing a credit card in the name of banking boss Marcus Agius and then used it to withdraw funds at a high street branch.
It is believed that the thief, working alone or as part of a gang, used the internet to find out details concerning Agius, such as his date of birth and address.
He then contacted a Barclaycard employee and requested that a new card be sent out.
c.300m accuracy is good enough for me, almost all the time.
However GMaps on my S60 mobile routinely either finds me "unavailable" or well over a mile out.
If they've got the triangulating algorythms working more accurately, why not release it on GMaps?
(And yes, that was a rhetorical question...) ;-)
From what I can see, RSS items you've shared via Google Reader are actually only accessible to GTalk or GChat contacts and NOT your 'regular' Gmail contacts. (And of course, the unwitting recipient needs to be using GReader themselves to be able to see it.)
Get over it folks: if you want to limit the items you share, then get a blog and only invite friends with whom you're happy to 'sacrifice' your privacy!
Picky yes, but it gets tiring reading "news" where the writers of the public blurbs just don't know enough to get the details right. Yeah, it's hardly rocket science...
Lets see...
He's an officer in the military which has shown itself willing to use deadly force and brutality around the world whenever ordered regardless of the legality.
And the "anonymous coward" is a nerd in his bedroom with a keyboard.
No promises but...
A friend of a friend with a friend in the iPod Special Projects team says "there's a near-identical widescreen iPod, just without the phone functionality, to be announced in the next few months."
The BitTorrent protocol was specifically *designed* for the rapid, near-simultaneous distribution of popular files to a large number of users -- who are then able to share them via other methods successfully avoiding the usual/. effect.
Surely that makes sense regardless of the efforts of some university networks and ISPs to prevent the use of torrents?
Let's face it, there are plenty enough people using BitTorrents to download media files already to justify concern.
But in almost 2 years of reviewing the more popular BT forums and websites, I can only recall reading of two infected downloads. And there was no suggestion that either were intended as malicious attacks.
Both the torrents were removed from their servers with hours.
... and Windows Update takes longer to identify what's needed than the Firefox patch took to identify and download!
Just wish I could figure how to move my 500+ Opera bookmarks and shift the sidepanel to the bottom of the window:)
(1) Your insurance was cancelled without you being informed? In the UK at least, any changes in coverage have to be mailed to you *before* they come into force. On what legal advice did you decide not to sue the insurance company?
(2) So the collision was caused by something else but the court found you liable? Tell us more...
(3) Presumably you'd registered your new address with the driver licensing authority when you moved -- didn't you go back to court to argue that the court summons was not correctly served on you?
I'm usually accused of being over-sympathetic but from the little you've written, I'm afraid it sounds like you need to review the concept of personal responsibility...
(However I'm pleased that you eventually found some success out of the mire!)
"In the UK I'm paying about 350 pounds a month to insure a 3 year-old 2 litre mondeo"
Which is considerably over the odds for even the UK's rip-off car insurance market...
Kind of suggests that you're a very young or newly-qualified driver, live in a crime-infested neighbourhood or maybe already have driving convictions?
And if most of your journeys are local, wouldn't it be cheaper to walk or get a taxi?:)
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However GMaps on my S60 mobile routinely either finds me "unavailable" or well over a mile out.
If they've got the triangulating algorythms working more accurately, why not release it on GMaps?
;-)
(And yes, that was a rhetorical question...)
From what I can see, RSS items you've shared via Google Reader are actually only accessible to GTalk or GChat contacts and NOT your 'regular' Gmail contacts.
(And of course, the unwitting recipient needs to be using GReader themselves to be able to see it.)
Get over it folks: if you want to limit the items you share, then get a blog and only invite friends with whom you're happy to 'sacrifice' your privacy!
heh
And the "anonymous coward" is a nerd in his bedroom with a keyboard.
Nope, I think you got it the wrong way around.
I say Yamamoto,
:D
You say Yamato,
Yamamoto,
Yamato.
No, lets call the whole thing off...
No promises but...
:)
A friend of a friend with a friend in the iPod Special Projects team says "there's a near-identical widescreen iPod, just without the phone functionality, to be announced in the next few months."
No, honestly. That's what he said!
That's the most interesting, humourous and illuminating comment I've read here in months... Wish I had some points to mod you insightful! Thanks.
You're joking, right?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention#Data_
Bath city centre *was* designed for horse+carts and sedan chairs but driving isn't too bad after 8pm.
:)
Unlike *anything* in Swindon... (at any time!)
The BitTorrent protocol was specifically *designed* for the rapid, near-simultaneous distribution of popular files to a large number of users -- who are then able to share them via other methods successfully avoiding the usual /. effect.
Surely that makes sense regardless of the efforts of some university networks and ISPs to prevent the use of torrents?
On the other hand, what's so bad about having a card like this?
http://www.no2id.net/ for a detailed debunking.
hth
Let's face it, there are plenty enough people using BitTorrents to download media files already to justify concern.
But in almost 2 years of reviewing the more popular BT forums and websites, I can only recall reading of two infected downloads. And there was no suggestion that either were intended as malicious attacks.
Both the torrents were removed from their servers with hours.
... and Windows Update takes longer to identify what's needed than the Firefox patch took to identify and download! Just wish I could figure how to move my 500+ Opera bookmarks and shift the sidepanel to the bottom of the window :)
(1) Your insurance was cancelled without you being informed? In the UK at least, any changes in coverage have to be mailed to you *before* they come into force. On what legal advice did you decide not to sue the insurance company?
(2) So the collision was caused by something else but the court found you liable? Tell us more...
(3) Presumably you'd registered your new address with the driver licensing authority when you moved -- didn't you go back to court to argue that the court summons was not correctly served on you?
I'm usually accused of being over-sympathetic but from the little you've written, I'm afraid it sounds like you need to review the concept of personal responsibility...
(However I'm pleased that you eventually found some success out of the mire!)
"In the UK I'm paying about 350 pounds a month to insure a 3 year-old 2 litre mondeo"
:)
Which is considerably over the odds for even the UK's rip-off car insurance market...
Kind of suggests that you're a very young or newly-qualified driver, live in a crime-infested neighbourhood or maybe already have driving convictions?
And if most of your journeys are local, wouldn't it be cheaper to walk or get a taxi?