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08/08/2008
Card Scam Alert
Fraud is 'on the cards' this week with several hundred bank customers believed to have been hit by an online scam.
It is believed the credit card details were accessed several months ago, but have only begun to use them in the past two days.
However, the Irish Payment Services Organisation is reassuring bank customers that they will not be liable for fraudulent transactions on their credit cards.
The monitoring system operated by Irish banks spotted the unusual transactions, after the card details were used to buy low-value items, for €1 or €2, on a US website.
It is thought the criminals were testing the cards, to check if they were still valid.
Meanwhile, a man has been charged with 79 counts of false accounting and one count of money laundering in Northern Ireland.
The 40-year-old is expected to appear at Newry Magistrates Court on 27 August.
A PSNI spokeswoman said the charges are understood to relate to numerous offences that took place throughout the UK between 2005 and 2007.
(BMcC)
It is believed the credit card details were accessed several months ago, but have only begun to use them in the past two days.
However, the Irish Payment Services Organisation is reassuring bank customers that they will not be liable for fraudulent transactions on their credit cards.
The monitoring system operated by Irish banks spotted the unusual transactions, after the card details were used to buy low-value items, for €1 or €2, on a US website.
It is thought the criminals were testing the cards, to check if they were still valid.
Meanwhile, a man has been charged with 79 counts of false accounting and one count of money laundering in Northern Ireland.
The 40-year-old is expected to appear at Newry Magistrates Court on 27 August.
A PSNI spokeswoman said the charges are understood to relate to numerous offences that took place throughout the UK between 2005 and 2007.
(BMcC)
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