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RSS fraud crime unitJohn Lamb's Week: Getting the CeBIT between your teeth
Comment Counterfeiting is the biggest source of lost revenue, but internet fraud is gaining ground, as is mail order crime. VISA hopes that with chips in cards and new schemes for checking user identity on the internet it can reduce card crime. [16 Mar 2001]
Straw recruits 80 'cybercops' in £25m initiative
News Back in January, Straw announced the government was to spend £337,000 in setting up a National Computer Crime Unit under the aegis of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), a sum which many in the industry claimed was inadequate. [13 Nov 2000]
FBI sets up cyber-crime unit
News Currently, the FBI does not have a specific mechanism to track Internet crime, so it is hoped the IFC will be able to tackle the growing concerns about fraud. The IFC will be run in conjunction with research group, the White Collar Crime Center... [10 May 1999]
Fake Microsoft Office CDs flood UK market
News Microsoft blames the crime on drug syndicates in the Far East, which Gregory claimed spend up to £750,000 each time they set up a forgery unit. This is why we are trying to increase the penalties for software fraud. [17 Dec 1998]
Alcatel buys anti-fraud vendor
News An Alcatel spokesman told Silicon.com: "Operators can lose 2 to 3 per cent of their revenues to fraud, and this deal will complement our existing worldwide distribution agreement for KSS's TelPrice system also aimed at reducing this crime. [09 Nov 1998]
Special team to tackle Internet fraud
News Eric Ellen, executive director at the Commercial Crime Bureau, said: "The unit will primarily investigate allegations of fraud. An international team of crime busters has been set up to combat Internet fraud. [28 Sep 1998]
