[LINK] Gartner Online Banking Fraud Report

[Tim O'Leary]

At 06:30 PM Tuesday 15/06/2004, Phillip Piper wrote:
>MSNBC ran a report yesterday,  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5184077/  ,
>quoting from  a recent Gartner report, that
>
>"Nearly 2 million Americans have had their checking accounts raided by
>criminals in the past 12 months, according to a soon-to-be released survey
>by market research group Gartner. Consumers reported an average loss per
>incident of $1,200, pushing total losses higher than $2 billion for the
>year."
>
>This is a big worry.  If the Gartner figures for the US are extrapolated
>proportionally to Australia's population (roughly) between 100,000 and
>200,000 Australians may have been taken for $100-200 million in the past
>year.


My hype / bullshit detector is ringing loudly.

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TIM O'LEARY
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