Articles Tagged with ''theft prevention''

About 40,000 Minnesota residents will go to their mailboxes Sunday, May 6, for a rare delivery: an empty pill bottle representing a powerful antibiotic that would be delivered in the event of a bioterrorism attack. More than 300 mail carriers will participate in the test, fanning out across four neighborhoods

Untrained guards, faulty equipment and disastrous communications all contributed to the vulnerability of  Athens’ National Gallery last January, according to a report from the Greek government.

Attempting to steal copper, man cuts into live wire and dies but also kills power to homeowners, too.

Police and retailers are pushing back against a report claiming that theft of Tide laundry detergent is on the rise nationwide and that cities are devising special task forces to crack down on the alleged phenomenon, according to a report from Fox News.

An organized gang is suspected in a theft of a trailer full of a couple of million dollars worth of consumer oriented electronics which are easy to resell and hard to trace. There are vulnerabilities all along the supply chain, including truck rest stops.

A Fargo theft with losses in the six figures shows the growing incidents of metal theft. Some also lead to loss of electric service to hospitals, neighborhoods and even whole cities.

Found more often at ATMs and gas station checkouts, supermarkets in California discovered skimmers at self-checkout terminals. They delayed notifying customers because they thought they had prevented a security breach but more than a hundred customers reported thefts.

The alleged scam targeted customers who often paid with American Express Black cards and other high-limit credit cards.

As skimming grows, the good news is that two men were arrested November 1 on charges of conspiring to produce, use, or traffic in one or more counterfeit devices, following a lengthy U.S. Secret Service investigation.