Brit pair convicted for high-tech bank heist gone bad Two men have been convicted for trying to steal £229m from the London branch of a Japanese bank in an elaborate, high-tech scheme that would have been Britain's biggest bank heist. Hugh Rodley, 61, of Twyning, Tewksbury was found guilty in Snaresbrook crown court of conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to transfer criminal …
It's always the same - bumbling crooks failed in biggest ever fraud attempt due to schoolboy errors.
Makes me wonder, how many unreported cases where the crooks actually got away with it?
Although, I dont suppose the banks will ever admit to the true scale of that problem.
When I worked at SWIFT I was told the tale of the mafia gang who had invented a fictious island nation, complete with lots of supporting national websites and mentions on forums. Their 'national bank' applied for SWIFT membership and the scam was only caught because someone eventually looked at an atlas.
Even if they filled out the forms correctly, multi-million dollar/pound/euro international transfers get noticed rather quickly. It's better to move just a couple thousand every week or two so it looks like a regular payment to some outsourced contractor. You can keep that up for years before anyone catches on, at which point your money-laundering system should have become so complex that they'll never get through it.
Is that it is used for huge transactions, and with the money flows during the day , then this would have have been noticed, before the money had been moved on. Or drawn out as a bankers draft, etc.
But yeah to plan this and then make a mistake in entering the swifth data is only fools and horses
level of stupidity!
Paris, because even she would not have made this mistake
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