he Scotland Yard rated warehouse of the
soho district today in such a group of
thieves running a worldwide ford
operation instead they found parts of
the warehouse ablaze in other news week
journey to england began with a phone
call my soccer mom in glendale her name
was Alice keys and her identity had been
stolen they hooked Alice with a type of
internet fraud called phishing she got
an email from her bank telling her that
there was a problem with her account it
contained a link to the bank's website
that would allow her to fix the problem
by reentering her personal data trouble
was it only looked like her bank she
figured that out when her credit card
bill came in the mail two weeks later
the four thousand dollars in charges she
couldn't explain her so-called bank was
actually a slick-looking a website
created by a guy named Charles Napier
problem was she was 5,000 miles away
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Matt Asiata daddy's got back in sheller
nice hey search cow somehow they got
tipped off looks like they left in a
hurry though did Scotland Yard have
anything on Napier a lot this guy is a
real piece of work I'm all kinds of
scams all of them on the Internet
advance payment auction fraud software
piracy fishing you name it he's doing it
victims all over the US yeah we met with
the Office of Fair Trading London any
luck tracing the stolen merchandise know
all the stuff was mailed to some college
kids in Florida they forwarded
everything to a mail drop in edinboro
and he recruited him on the net yes his
large and even wire transfers they
thought the whole thing was legit what
about the number he posted to the fact
that turns out to be a prepaid cell
phone he purchased with another stolen
card yeah he only used it for a couple
weeks and he dumped it great
well at least the trip wasn't a total
waste did pick you up a present I bring
you great danes from London sorry I
didn't have time to wrap it oh you
shouldn't have think we'll be able to
pull anything awesome I don't know Greg
tried the mobile forensics kid at the
search move too far gone I was hoping
the lab could do something with it you
do me a favor you drop this off for me I
can use some sleep coffee see you later
CP ER and covered his tracks pretty well
for the crime lab was about to make a
wake-up call got it Allen Steve we will
salvage anything from that laptop oh
this guy was pretty careful Alan be
formatted the drive to erase everything
the fire took out a couple of platters
but I was able to talk we've got
thousands of victims here there are
40,000 credit card numbers alone stolen
goods being moved all over the world um
I'm gonna need to get all that to the
assistant US attorney didn't happen to
recover anything that may help us find
this guy I mean he's into the wind man a
week ago he booked a vacation in
Thailand now according to his itinerary
he's scheduled to take a tour of the
Passaic River tomorrow but then returned
to his hotel in bangkok on Thursday
good news I really appreciate that Steve
look I need you to get me a disk of
everything you got right away you been
the inspection service and Scotland Yard
requested assistance from the thai
police and arranged for them to arrest
me here at his hotel
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we want to be an observer and help with
the interviews
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what's all this this is Alice keys well
the people whose lives you stole oh come
on now some little bird gets pinched for
a few quid just treat me like a
terrorist credit card company lanova
loss anyway there's six months to
straighten out of bank account she
almost lost her home give a crap about
that yeah yeah life's tough all over we
all have to survive best we can you know
you are absolutely right you were gonna
need every one of your survival skills
in federal prison federal prison that's
where you're wrong mate I'm on the next
plane back to merry old England oh no
not this time
we've already spoken to Scotland Yard
the British prosecutors about your
extradition
looks like you're a man without a
country
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and I'll make sure you take a closer
look at anything that looks like it's
going to Charles Napier's awaiting trial
in federal court for over 100 counts of
mail fraud and its victims are slowly
rebuilding their financial lives the
Internet can be a safe place to do
business but you should be aware that
there are those who target unsuspecting
consumers there are steps that you can
take to protect yourself number one be
suspicious of emails that appear to be
from banks online auction sites or other
retailers usually they'll ask you to
correct mistakes in your account
information or provider their personal
information never use a link in an email
to visit any website type in the address
that you normally use to log into those
sites if you have doubts called the
business on the telephone you should
always be able to resolve the complaint
with a customer service representative
if the company's legitimate number to
only purchase goods and services from
sites that you trust software makes it
easy for criminals to create websites
and emails that look exactly like the
real ones examine all offers carefully
before purchasing lastly when you're
online be on guard for postal inspectors
internet scams are like old wine and a
new bottle the mill fraud and
telemarketing scams we've seen in the
past are now coming at you through
cyberspace whether it's auction fraud or
identity theft reshipping scams or
foreign lotteries be cautious and be
smart for more tips on how to avoid
internet fraud or to report the crime if
you've been a victim visit our website
at usps.com / postal inspectors or looks
too good to be true calm these simple
steps can help protect you from crooks
thousands of miles away or just across
the street and we'll give them a world
of trouble