INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FRAUD
July 1st, 2002
BY MARK ROWEINTERNATIONAL organisations are supposed to help business fight off sophisticated crime networks, but now the fraudsters are turning the tables and using the good name of these institutions as part of their scams. Mark Rowe reports.IT STARTED with a fax from a Chinese businessman to the Vienna headquarters of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP). The Chinaman had been told he could expect a finance transfer from Iraq to the value of GB Pounds 100,000. The funds transfer, the letter said, would infringe international ...
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