Bank and mortgage scam nets ID crooks thousands (The Register)

Story date: 2007-10-30 07:44:54
Added on: 2007-10-30 10:00:18

Why settle for just emptying an online bank account? Scammers conned both a mortgage firm and a bank to hit an IT director for £60,000. UK police are hunting the gang responsible for the scam, and at least nine others like it, that are estimated to have netted ID fraudsters hundreds of thousands of pounds, The Times reports .…


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