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Bank Robbers Now Use Computers | 
 enlarge | Author: Herman Mcdaniel
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 3039675
Media: Paperback
Pages: 260
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1432704508
EAN: 9781432704506
ASIN: 1432704508
Publication Date: May 19, 2007
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Condition: Publisher: Outskirts PressDate of Publication: 2007Binding: PaperbackCondition: New
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Product Description
Bank computers are outwitted every day!
Criminals attack bank computer systems in countless, often ingenious, ways--every minute of every day. Somewhere such a crime is probably in progress even as you read this.
Bank insiders frequently yield to temptation. Dishonest bank employees have used the electronic funds transfer computer networks to steal tens of millions instantly. A few have devised schemes to steal hundreds of millions of dollars in a single day.
ATMs and online banking are the current targets-of-choice for most bank robbers.
Threats against computers in banks are forever increasing in sophistication. Criminals can now monitor all of the activities of a particular computer--without the knowledge or consent of the computer's owner. This enables them to capture from afar, screen names, passwords, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and so forth. Isn't that a spooky bit of news?
This book traces the evolution of crimes involving computers in financial institutions from the earliest reported and prosecuted, to those still wending their way through the criminal justice systems of the world. More than one hundred incidents from around the globe are included. Some are amusing. Some are amazing. A few are truly horrifying.
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Bank Robbers Now Use Computers does not disappoint. November 4, 2007
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bank Robbers Now Use Computers is a wake-up call to how criminals in the twenty-first century rob their victims. The era of traditional bank holdups is being supplemented by increasingly savvy computer fraud, identity theft, ATM abuse, as well as the kidnapping or murder of people for their ATM cards, debit cards, or credit cards. Bank Robbers Now Use Computers consists almost entirely of various crime and scam stories involving theft. These true tales include crimes in the US and abroad, and range from "Nigerian email" schemes where the con man never sees his victim to brutal robberies and killings. Although horrifying, the stories also offer the best defense - that of prevention through knowledge. It is author Herman McDaniel's hope that by spreading word of robbers' schemes more people will learn how to protect themselves against them, and to that end, Bank Robbers Now Use Computers does not disappoint.
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