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The Big Heist that Almost Worked

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Two men have been convicted for their part in trying to pull off a £229m heist at the Sumitomo Mitsui Bank in London.

In one of the biggest attempted bank thefts in Britain, they used hi-tech equipment to try to steal money from the accounts of big businesses.

Hugh Rodley, 61, of Twyning, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and sex shop owner, David Nash, 47, from Durrington, West Sussex, were foiled only at the last minute by the complexities of inter-bank money transfers.

On the early evening of 16 September 2006, two men arrived at the reception desk of the Sumitomo Mitsui Bank in London. One asked for the bank’s security supervisor, Kevin O’Donoghue.

He had a distinctive European, possibly Belgian, accent but the receptionist thought nothing of it. After all, this was the London branch of a major Japanese merchant bank with global interests and investments.
Hugh Rodley
Hugh Rodley, involved in the heist, is a self-styled lord of the manor

What she did not know was that the two men led upstairs by security chief O’Donoghue were expert hackers – and they had come to the bank to implement the first stage of the most audacious, and potentially lucrative, cyber snatch in history.

Police do not know how long the gang had been planning the operation. And those now convicted are certainly not those behind the plan.

When questioned, Kevin O’Donoghue, 34, from Birmingham, claimed that he had been coerced into helping and that his family had been threatened. He later admitted a charge of conspiracy to steal.

CCTV images showed him laughing and joking as he showed the two Belgian cyber-thieves to a terminal in one of the trading offices.

Jan Van Osselaer from Belgium and Gilles Poelvoorde from France, who admitted a charge of conspiracy to steal, had come prepared.

They used a USB memory stick to instal “keylogger” software on various workstations that recorded every button pressed by users.

‘No kingpin’

A few days later, they returned and downloaded the data from the keylogger programmes. They now had the usernames and passwords of every bank employee who had used the infected computers.

But Kevin O’Donoghue had made some mistakes. He had tampered with some of the CCTV cameras – even cutting the wires on one – in an effort to cover the gang’s tracks. Other employees started to wonder why he had started enquiring about creating extra access badges.

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Tijuana: 6 New Bodies are Found

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A lull in the drug-related violence that has gripped the region was shattered yesterday with the discovery of six corpses in three locations in Tijuana and Tecate.

The victims included three men whose mutilated corpses were found with a message near the U.S. border fence in Playas de Tijuana; two 16-year-old girls whose decomposed bodies were found off a road south of downtown Tecate; and a man whose body was found wrapped in a blanket on the side of a road in a central part of the Tijuana.

The sudden drop-off in violence since mid-January had led to reports of a truce between drug traffickers feuding for control of the region’s domestic market and smuggling routes to the United States. But the shifting scenario raises the question of whether the renewed violence could be connected to recent arrests of suspected gang members in Tijuana by members of Mexico’s Federal Police.

Drug gangs use killings as a way of punishing suspected informants and warning enemies. A message left with the three bodies found with their heads and limbs cut off was addressed to “balcon” – a word meaning blabbermouth.

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Tijuana might be loose, but there are fly girls there. And you can smoke and drink in bars all night.

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Down Economy and Shylocks Up

Reader DG sent me this article on the increase of loan sharking in the Down Economy.

I mentioned this in The Top Ten ways to Make Money in a Down Economy.

“When the bills started piling up and the banks wouldn’t lend, the white-haired art dealer in the elegant tweed jacket said he drove to the outskirts of Rome and knocked on the rusty steel door of a shipping container.

A beefy man named Mauro answered. He wore blue overalls with two big pockets, one stuffed with checks and the other with cash. The wad of bills he handed over, the art dealer recalled, reeked of the man’s cologne and came at 120 percent annual interest.

As banks stop lending amid the global financial crisis, the likes of Mauro are increasingly becoming the face of Italian finance. The Mafia and its loan sharks, nearly everyone agrees, smell blood in the troubled waters.

“It’s a fantastic time for the Mafia. They have the cash,” said Antonio Roccuzzo, the author of several books on organized crime. “The Mafia has enormous liquidity. It may be the only Italian ‘company’ without any cash problem.”

At a time when businesses most need loans as they struggle with falling sales, rising debt and impending bankruptcy, banks have tightened their lending to them.

Italian banks, which for years had been widely criticized for lending sparingly to small and medium-size businesses, now have “absolutely closed the purse strings,” said Gian Maria Fara, the president of Eurispes, a private research institute.

That is great news for loan sharks. Confesercenti, the national shopkeepers association, estimates that 180,000 businesses recently have turned to them in desperation. Although some shady lenders are freelancers turning profits on others’ hard luck, very often the neighborhood tough offering fat rolls of cash is connected to the Mafia, the group said.”

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Ricchi E Poveri – Acapulco

Drug Explosion Coming: Cocaine Cheaper than Beer

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A line of cocaine is now cheaper than a pint of lager or a glass of wine, official figures have disclosed.

The Home Office has admitted that the street price of both cocaine and heroin has fallen by nearly half in the last ten years, making the most dangerous illegal drugs cheaper than they have ever been.

Based on reports from police forces, the Home Office said that cocaine is now being sold for as little as £20 a gram in some parts of the country.

The most common price for the drug is £40 per gram. Home Office figures for 1998 show the average price was £77.

A gram of heroin can now be bought for as little as £25, with the average price somewhere between £40 and £50 per gram. In 1998, the average was £74.

The Home Office figures are based on data collected from police forces and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

According to DrugScope, a charity that provides research and advice on drugs policy, gram of cocaine can make between 10 and 20 lines for snorting, depending on its strength.

That means a line of cocaine can cost as little as £1, with an average price per line of between £2 and £4.

The average price of a pint of lager is around £2.75, although some pub chains have reacted to the credit crunch by cutting the price of a pint as low as 99p. A glass of wine typically costs £3.50.

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The Drug Explosion is on its way.

Better for Standover Men, Oh my Brothers.

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Clipse – Nightmares

Smuggler’s Corridor San Diego

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A recent spike in human and narcotics smuggling attempts off San Diego County’s so-called “Smuggler’s Corridor” has kept members of the San Diego Marine Task force busy over the past week.

Last month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized 1,100 pounds of marijuana off Mission Beach, on Jan. 17. Then, on Jan. 28, an abandoned boat thought to have been used to smuggle undocumented individuals was discovered adrift off Torrey Pines State Beach. That vessel contained 21 lifejackets.

Apparently, these two well-publicized encounters were only the beginning of a rash of attempts to circumvent security measures along the international border by running an offshore gauntlet along the coast between Ensenada and Del Mar, dubbed Smuggler’s Corridor by local mariners.

On Jan. 31, the U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a 17-foot vessel traveling north from the international maritime boundary with four undocumented Mexican nationals on board.

Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team officers patrolling San Diego Bay on Feb. 1 at about midnight thwarted an apparent smuggling attempt when they intercepted a 25-foot sailing vessel with four persons on board.

Before dawn Feb. 2, CBP agents intercepted a Mexican fishing vessel loaded with 23 undocumented Mexican nationals off Torrey Pines State Beach.

Later that morning, Coast Guard crewmembers from the Maritime Safety and Security Team in San Diego apprehended two suspected illegal migrants attempting to swim north across the international maritime boundary near the mouth of the Tijuana River.

The accelerating pace of interdictions off San Diego’s shoreline is beyond anything previously seen.

“I can’t even make an educated guess what’s behind the increase,” said Coast Guard Pubic Affairs Petty Officer Jetta Disco. “I don’t know what it’s like in Mexico or how bad it’s getting over there. I’ve talked to other agencies such as CBP; the fantastic job they’re doing (blocking illegal entry landside) seems to be leading to an increase of (waterborne) smuggling attempts.”

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The increase is because we are about to see a Drug Explosion in America.

You heard it here first.

Side note:

For the strong at heart, heisting these boats a la Somali style is a good move to make scratch in the Down Economy.

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Michael Porfirio Mason
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AKA GFK, Jr.
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Smuggler’s Blues – Glen Frey

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