That gift card you spotted on the Internet offered at a nice discount look enticing? Buy it and you may be helping a cybercrook complete a slick money-laundering scheme.
In what security experts describe as "cyber money laundering" or "e-fencing," scammers have perfected yet another way to convert stolen data into cash while sitting at a computer.
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Cheques fraud on the Internet
An investor is due back in court next Sunday, accused of issuing two dud cheques totalling BD1,100,000 to finance a hi-tech communications project in Bahrain.
The Saudi businessman denies the charge, saying that the cheques were only meant as a guarantee, under an agreement with the Duabi-based company behind the project.
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