Saturday, July 05, 2008
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I WAS STOLEN BLIND WHEN I USED STANDARD BANK......
I WAS STOLEN BLIND WHEN I USED STANDARD BANK......AND NBS ---------
THEY STOLE R125 000 OUT OF MY STANDARD BANK ACTION BOND AND R38750.00 OUT OF A CREDIT CARD ---- R180 000.00 OUT OF MY CHEQUE ACCOUNT....WITH STANDARD BANK THEY ALSO TOOK A HUGE AMOUNT AND STOLE ABOUT 12 STANDS -- PROPERTIES WHEN THEY DID THEY TRANSFER FROM NBS TO THE NEW BANK -- MY PROPERTIES JUST TOOK WINGS ALONG WITH THE MONEY IN MY ACCOUNTS AND ACCESS BONDS.........SIMONE OZBOLT(CARELESS)
THEY THEN ILLEGALLY SUED ME FOR THE MONEY -- STOLE MY HOUSE -- THROUGH THE CRIMINALITY IN THEIR HOUSING DEPARTMENT AND SOLD IT FOR R100.00 AND THEN SUED ME EIGHT TIMES FOR MONEY THAT I DID NOT OWE THEIR HOUSING DEPARTMENT STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN.........................EVERYONE SHOULD BE FIRED...........................................
Phishing trip nets R700k
July 05 2008 at 10:42AMBy Brownyn Gerretsen
Now, one month and R725 865 later, Warren Marlin, 42, is considering legal action against Standard Bank to be refunded his money.
During just two days criminals managed not only to hack into a Durban man's business cheque account and pay out more than R700 000 to over 200 fraudulent recipients, but also to transfer funds from his Access Bond account to his cheque account once that overdraft limit had been exceeded.
And that's not all.
The fraudsters timed their crimes perfectly to coincide with the end of that month and the beginning of the next, so that when his monthly electronic payment limit had been reached, they only had to wait for the new month to begin so that his limit would be reset at zero.
He was refunded about R369 000 which the bank managed to save by stopping the transactions before they were completed, but the institution said it was not liable to refund the R356 854 as the loss was "not facilitated through any fault or negligence of the bank nor its systems".
Marlin, who owns an import and export company, had done his banking at an Internet café in Umhlanga on the weekend of May 30. He said he used Internet cafés when his computer was not working or when there were power failures.
On Monday June 2 Marlin said he opened his banking account and saw a number of transactions made to a company by the same name of one of his clients. However, the accounts were fictitious and did not belong to that company.
The payments ranged from R2 000 to R5 000.
Standard Bank's report on the matter said that on May 31, Marlin's banking profile was logged into and a "once-off- payment" was attempted. This triggered a One Time Password (OTP) which, the bank said, was validated by the e-mail address which it was sent to.
However, Marlin said he did not request nor validate any OTP. He also did not sign any documents with the bank which noted a disclaimer.
Payments amounting to R356 865 were made on this day. The next day, June 1, payments totalling R363 900 were made.
An advocate dealing with his case has requested documents from the bank and, based on the information in them, will decide whether legal action could be taken to reclaim the money .
After the fraud was reported to Standard Bank, its investigators went to Durban to investigate. They traced the fraud to a computer in an Internet café at an Umhlanga Rocks shopping centre. It is not yet clear whether software had been loaded on to the computer to record Marlin's access pins and codes. The investigation is ongoing.
In its correspondence with Marlin, Standard Bank said newsletters containing information on the dangers of phishing and warnings against using pubic points to access Internet banking had been sent to customers on seven occasions since March last year.
Marlin said he had not received such notices.
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