January 15, 2003
LONDON -- Coventry Building Society ATMs spewed out more than £850,000 (about $1.3 million U.S.) in five days to customers who were able to obtain any amount…
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- More than 95 percent of Malaysia's 3,839 automated ATMs have been fully upgraded to chip-based technology, according to a report in…
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- A relative of the suspected mastermind of a recent 50-million-baht (about $1.16 million U.S.) security van robbery returned almost one…
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Asia-Pacific is leading the way in migration to Europay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) chip cards, according to a report in e-media.
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HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Most Americans are willing to accept increased use of biometric technologies by private sector firms, providing proper privacy safeguards…
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TOKYO -- Construction equipment maker Komatsu Ltd will distribute copy-resistant keys to its products to prevent them from being used in smash-and-grab attacks…
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- The suspected mastermind of a bank van robbery set fire to part of the loot, saying he wanted to keep himself warm on a cold night, police…
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Police discovered a van containing 53.5 million baht (about $1.2 million U.S.) stolen by a cash courier parked in Sai Mai district…
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- The cash courier who bolted with 11.5 million baht (about $267,000 U.S.) says he stole his employer's money because the firm was mean to…
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NEW DELHI, India -- MasterCard believes it has made a major breakthrough in the battle against counterfeting of credit cards with a new technology, dubbed…
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WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- Between the afternoon of Dec. 27 and early morning Dec. 29, area police were kept busy by a thief or thieves who stole a pickup from a…
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OTSU, Japan -- An ATM filled with some 8.7 million yen in cash (about $73,343 U.S.) was stolen but recovered early on Dec. 29 in Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture…
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SEATTLE -- King County, Wash., prosecutors charged 25-year-old Lenardo Christopher White in the attempted robbery of an ATM user -- an incident that led…
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TOKYO -- A spate of ATM thefts has prompted Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) to revise its standards for crime prevention measures at ATMs run by financial…
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TRENTON, N.J. -- Calling him a "thoroughly dishonest person," a federal judge sentenced Dennis Kelley, a 52-year-old accountant, to six months in prison for…
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PHILADELPHIA -- Willie and Tawanda Anderson on Dec. 17 were cleared of taking money and running after they used a malfunctioning ATM at an H&R Block Tax…
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TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israel's National Fraud Squad, as part of an investigation into a scam in which hundreds of bogus Discount Bank ATM cards were created, is…
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SURREY, British Columbia -- Silent Witness Enterprises Ltd, a provider of digital video management systems, is now a strategic partner of ATM manufacturer…
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SYDNEY, Australia -- New South Wales police seized a skimming device attached to an ATM in inner-city Sydney following several incidents of fraud using the…
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KAMLOOPS, British Columbia -- Dimitri Brezinev, a 34-year-old illegal Russian immigrant, now faces more than 100 fraud charges as Canadian police continue to…
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