Two Thais Held For Stealing Bt1.7m From Briton

[siamiam]

Copy and paste can be grabbed by many software-keyloggers (a misnomer as they are often a combination of things and keylogging is one of the features, as just that feature alone produces a lot of huge logs and very hard data to dig through to find any value from unless it's a targeted attack).

But anything you do that is 'not ordinary' will render the most common 'hijackers' useless, as many of the applications aren't built by professionals. However it doesn't matter how careful you are if you are a target of an aimed attack, but that is usually only the case against corporations and the for instance gaining access to a specific persons account, using combinations of hardware keyloggers (if posssible) and a multitude of trojan-packs using different attack vectors (including the famous 'click here to watch Britneys latest nud_e pictures'-exe's in the email).

Eventually, if they re persistent enough, they will get you. Unless you input is feed to you from a secondary source, for instance a secure login device.

TAWP, Thanks for the info! Cheers, siamiam

[johnefallis]

withdraw that much from atm?how long did that take?no daily limit?must be more to this story.

My Kasikorn Bank default limit amount on my ATM card is 200,000 baht per day. I never saw any purpose in trying to increase it.

[johnefallis]

To transfer 1.7m in blocks of up to 200k into ten different 3rd party accounts for example: 10 minutes.

To withdraw cash 200K cash in blocks of 50k per day from each of those ten accounts: 4 days.

Or, simply go to bank teller and withdraw 200k in cash from each account: 10 minutes.

Easy.

withdraw that much from atm?how long did that take?no daily limit?must be more to this story.

Again, the default amount for daily withdrawal limit is 200,000 baht on my standard Kasikorn Bank account.

[bushcutter66]

2 held for stealing Bt1.7m from Briton

BANGKOK: -- A Thai graduate student and two female accomplices were arrested for allegedly stealing Bt1.7 million from a Briton via the e-banking system, police said yesterday.

Tourist Police Division chief Pol Maj-General Adis Ngamjitsuksri yesterday presented 25-year-old student Thanayuth Samatchai, Supichyada Hanrob, 25, and Porntip Roopchaiyaphum, 21, as suspects at a press conference along with 10 items of evidence including five mobile phones, a computer notebook and a PC.

Siam Commercial Bank had alerted the Economic and Cyber Crime Division Centre for Transnational Crime and Electronic Crime Suppression that some thieves had stolen the personal data of a British customer then allegedly transferred Bt1.72 million of his money into a third person's account and withdrawn the cash via ATM.

The investigation concluded that Porntip had given her British ex-boyfriend's ATM and credit-card information to Supichyada, Adis said.

Supichyada reportedly used her close connections with a bank employee to change the password without having the required documents and transferred the money into the account of a person named Kannika Kusima in Surin. Thanayuth and the others used an ATM card to withdraw the cash.

Porntip reportedly received some money, which she used to get back land that had been pawned with a bank.

The investigation also found that Bt100,000 had been transferred from the account to a suspected accomplice, a Cambodian man named Sitha Mo, Adis said.

-- The Nation 2009-03-15

I also hope the man gets his money back, but i am a little confused. they stole 1.7 Million bt, and transferred it all to a private account, then 100,000 to someone else. however they say the rest of the money ( 1.6 million ) was withdrawn from an ATM ?? The S.C.B only permit you to withdraw 20,000 a day so this would have taken them 80 days !! so perhaps the bank were not to efficient after all in tracing the money so quickly !! or maybe it was all the red tape the brit had to go through to prove it !!!