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Crime and gambling
RISTOL FOUND NOT GUILTY: BLAMES ASSOCIATE
Arne Raymond Ristol (Computer Fraud & Security Bulletin, Vol 1, No 1) who was accused of stealing $927 000 from the United Bank of California was found not guilty when he appeared before the His associate - Ralph Ernste.in - faced an indictment Courts. including conspiracy, grand theft and receiving stolen property. The essence of Ristol's defence was that he was misled by Ernstein who told him the unexpected credit of $927 000 to his personal account was a "finder's fee" for a property deal in which they had been involved.
CUT PRICE PARKING
CAR
A group of schoolboys in Great Yarmouth found an easy way of The Town Council installed making additional pocket money. computer controlled ticket machines at a number of the resort's The machines cost El6 000. car parks. Members of the public wishing to use the car parks would collect a serially numbered ticket on the way in. This would be logged in the computer memory and after the motorist recovered his car, he would key in the serial number of his ticket at the exit When cash to the required barrier and the fee would be computed. amount was dropped in the coin slot, the exit barrier would lift. The schoolboys, one of them 11 years old, found a way to fiddle the "fiddle-proof" computer and at the exit gate would offer to let motorists out for a fraction of the proper fee. One driver who was offered a discount was Town Councillor Gordon Chapman. A spokesman said, "It's a complete mystery how these kids worked out a way to beat the computer."
CRIME AND GAMBLING
Kevin Field, an ex-Manager of one of Ladbroke's betting shops has to be the luckiest fraudsman ever. Mr Robert Booker, who prosecuted at Basingstoke, Hampshire, told the Court that Field, who had pleaded guilty to stealing !i450 from his employer, took money and gambled it at a rival bookmakers. The unusual thing about the case is that Mr Field won and showed a profit of E5685.91. Field was fined El250 with f26 costs. After repaying Ladbrokes for the amount stolen, paying his legal costs and fines, he was left with a profit of E2000. And
NEW COURSE TO BEAT COMPUTER CRIMINAL
so who
says
crime
never
pays!
The amount of valuable and sensitive information being transmitted and stored by computers is increasing, and companies must take effective steps to safeguard against intrusion or fraud. IBM has developed have been adopted mission of data.
data security and encryption techniques, which in the USA as a standard for the secure trans-
COMPUTER~~B~~&SECUBITYBULlETW Vol2
No3
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Arne Raymond Ristol (Computer Fraud & Security Bulletin, Vol 1, No 1) who was accused of stealing $927 000 from the United Bank of California was found not guilty when he appeared before the His associate - Ralph Ernste.in - faced an indictment Courts. including conspiracy, grand theft and receiving stolen property. The essence of Ristol's defence was that he was misled by Ernstein who told him the unexpected credit of $927 000 to his personal account was a "finder's fee" for a property deal in which they had been involved.
CUT PRICE PARKING
CAR
A group of schoolboys in Great Yarmouth found an easy way of The Town Council installed making additional pocket money. computer controlled ticket machines at a number of the resort's The machines cost El6 000. car parks. Members of the public wishing to use the car parks would collect a serially numbered ticket on the way in. This would be logged in the computer memory and after the motorist recovered his car, he would key in the serial number of his ticket at the exit When cash to the required barrier and the fee would be computed. amount was dropped in the coin slot, the exit barrier would lift. The schoolboys, one of them 11 years old, found a way to fiddle the "fiddle-proof" computer and at the exit gate would offer to let motorists out for a fraction of the proper fee. One driver who was offered a discount was Town Councillor Gordon Chapman. A spokesman said, "It's a complete mystery how these kids worked out a way to beat the computer."
CRIME AND GAMBLING
Kevin Field, an ex-Manager of one of Ladbroke's betting shops has to be the luckiest fraudsman ever. Mr Robert Booker, who prosecuted at Basingstoke, Hampshire, told the Court that Field, who had pleaded guilty to stealing !i450 from his employer, took money and gambled it at a rival bookmakers. The unusual thing about the case is that Mr Field won and showed a profit of E5685.91. Field was fined El250 with f26 costs. After repaying Ladbrokes for the amount stolen, paying his legal costs and fines, he was left with a profit of E2000. And
NEW COURSE TO BEAT COMPUTER CRIMINAL
so who
says
crime
never
pays!
The amount of valuable and sensitive information being transmitted and stored by computers is increasing, and companies must take effective steps to safeguard against intrusion or fraud. IBM has developed have been adopted mission of data.
data security and encryption techniques, which in the USA as a standard for the secure trans-
COMPUTER~~B~~&SECUBITYBULlETW Vol2
No3
19