Paintball fraudster got tax cash helping hand

By Michael MacLeod SCOTTISH Enterprise has come under fire for dishing out £30,000 to help a Scots paintball company run by a convicted fraudster. Edinburgh-based Bedlam Paintball got taxpayer-funded help to develop its “brand strategy” in 2007. But there are calls for the quango to review its background checks after it emerged Bedlam’s owner Roman Rock, 49, was jailed for three years in 1997 for his part in a £100,000 credit card fraud . [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 16:15:02

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Update on Fraud

Last month/year I reported on a fraudulent scheme to separate $0.25 from me. Today I got a link to a news item about said fraud. News is slow here. But they have two very useful links. Instead, file a dispute with your credit card company ... I closed it, got my money back too, and reported it to the three credit bureaus, stuff to do first [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:49:24

Australian Court Slams Bottle Domains' Lax Security

Via ITNews.com.au . The Victorian Supreme Court has chastised Bottle Domains for its "extraordinary indifference to the effect of credit card fraud on its victims" over attempts to downplay to customers the seriousness of a security breach. The domain registrar had its accreditation terminated by the domain name regulator auDA in April when it emerged the company didn't disclose a 2007 security breach . iTnews has contacted Bottle owner Nicholas Bolton for comment. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 04:02:00

PIN Debit and PCI Compliance

Howard Riell, in an article written for Convenience Store Decisions, writes about PCI compliance ... , entitled: "The High Stakes Of Compliance:" It was in September 2006 that the credit card companies formed the PCI Security Standards Council in the hopes of battling fraud. Today, all merchants [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 18:29:00

5 Quick Tips against Job Fraud!

If you’re new here, and interested in the latest news and insights on news from India and world, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed ... employer if he asks for either your credit card details or any type of secured numbers ... . Thanks for visiting I News India. Always be prepared from the fraud which lots of companies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 10:46:34

Family Finances: When you’re desperate, look out for fraud

At a recent home show, we were grabbed by a debt settlement company salesperson who offered to save us at least 40 percent in our effort to get ... Republican Searching For a Debt Consolidation Loan or Credit Card Counseling Service Beware Of Zombie Debt ... Collector? Bad Credit Debt Consolidation - Brutally Honest Advice Recent Debt and Foreclosure [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 06:20:00

Year 2, Week 27 Results: .6 oz of plastic waste.

I failed to notice last week that another 6 months had gone by since the inception of Fake Plastic Fish ... within the next 6 months) and two from Chase credit card company containing my new credit card and paper statements from the old card that was cancelled due to fraud. Crazy that I signed up for paperless [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 22:34:15

Roosevelt Island Public Safety Reports For 12/31/08 - 1/13/09 - Mailbox Credit Card Theft, Robbery/Assault, Stuck in Subway Elevator & Egg Throwing

Image of stolen mail from AARPDuring the January 7 RIRA Common Council Meeting it was disclosed that there is a problem on Roosevelt Island with new ... observing our mail and to call the credit card company and have the fraud alert lifted on two separate ... and I. Through mere accident, my husband became aware that a new credit card had been stolen from [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 18:57:00

Fraud enablers, customer non-knowledge and more

Could we maybe sell you the same thing twice? Or more? Don’t companies know anything about their customers? ... . To make a long story short, I bought stuff from the merchant who used Payson as their credit card ... inquiries, so I called my credit card company. Alas, they cannot do anything as their customer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:34:02

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