Cable Forum - View Single Post

Theodoric · 13-11-2004, 19:49

Firstly, an instance of how even the once upright Times is descending to levels of scaremongering worthy of The Express and The Mail.

Today's front page headline reads Victims of internet bank fraud will have to pay up and the first sentence is BANKS will no longer honour the debts of victims of internet fraud after a sudden rise in attacks against online accounts, The Times has learnt. "Gulp", I thought, "One slip and I'll lose my life savings!" However, if you plough on to para 7, it starts hinting that this is only likely to occur some time in the future.

Now, go to the corresponding BBC article and you find the headline Banks could refuse fraud refunds (my emphasis) with a first sentence of People considered to have ignored safety advice before losing money in online banking scams could soon be denied compensation by banks.

Ah well, yet further proof of the BBC being a falsifier of news and containing only lies, as many people seem to complain.

Anyway, back to the subject matter. The BBC site gave
a link to the Bank Safe Online site which gives advice on the subject. This gives a further link to a site containing a test on your knowledge of "phishing". I only got a miserable 50%. I'd say that it's much harder than you think to distinguish the scam from the legitimate.

13-11-2004, 19:49	#1
Theodoric Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London Posts: 2,974	Bank Fraud Compensation Firstly, an instance of how even the once upright Times is descending to levels of scaremongering worthy of The Express and The Mail. Today's front page headline reads Victims of internet bank fraud will have to pay up and the first sentence is BANKS will no longer honour the debts of victims of internet fraud after a sudden rise in attacks against online accounts, The Times has learnt. "Gulp", I thought, "One slip and I'll lose my life savings!" However, if you plough on to para 7, it starts hinting that this is only likely to occur some time in the future. Now, go to the corresponding BBC article and you find the headline Banks could* refuse fraud refunds* (my emphasis) with a first sentence of People considered to have ignored safety advice before losing money in online banking scams could soon be denied compensation by banks. Ah well, yet further proof of the BBC being a falsifier of news and containing only lies, as many people seem to complain. Anyway, back to the subject matter. The BBC site gave a link to the Bank Safe Online site which gives advice on the subject. This gives a further link to a site containing a test on your knowledge of "phishing". I only got a miserable 50%. I'd say that it's much harder than you think to distinguish the scam from the legitimate.