Plymouth Police warn of a nationwide scam
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Police officials from Plymouth are suspecting three companies of running a scam that involves credit card and bank accounts of individual users across the country. The three companies are Wolfen Solutions, Superior Technologies and Synergy Design Solutions.
Police officials ran into these companies when following up on a complaint lodged by a resident. The complainant was unnerved and came to the police after noticing unfamiliar charges piling up in his credit or bank account.
It is now believed that the scam is weaning money directly from the accounts or using credit cards illegally to make purchases against them. People living in Michiana are especially at risk. However, investigations done so far have turned up victims across the country. So, suspecting that the scam is a nationwide one, Plymouth police warn that anybody can be their next victim. They are urging everyone to keep a close watch on their credit card, debit card and internet banking accounts.
Stealing money from accounts in this manner is possible when secret access codes like login passwords, PIN number, and account numbers are compromised and fall into the hands of online fraudsters. There are two ways that fraudsters can get hold of this data.
They can either purchase it from other online criminals or they can steal it themselves. This is done by using secretly downloaded malicious programs. The malware, as such programs are called, keep a track of all online transactions made by users on an infected computer. Then it collects all login passwords and similar confidential information and pass them on to fraudsters.
Police officials world over dread receiving such types of complaints. More often than not, they end up in their list of unsolved crimes as such scams throw up few leads that the police can pursue to trace the criminals and bring them to justice.
Source: wsbt.com
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