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Customs and Excise cast wider net on VAT Fraud.?

As the countries most powerful law enforcement agency continues to scrutinise mobile phone and computer chip traders, they are turning more to ’ civil litigation to obtain lost revenue. A preliminary hearing on 10th January ‘ ruled that’ Customs could persue a Spanish Based trader with assets held in a uk bank account. Customs alleged that Total Networks SL were involved in a series of carousel frauds in relation to the sales of mobile phones. “ ”

First Mobile phone virus on Symbian phones.

No infections have been reported and the worm is harmless but it is proof that mobiles are at risk from virus writers. ’ The worm which identifies itself as Cabir only infects devices running the Symbian operating system.‘ There is no conclusive ’ move from the Anti-virus firms as to whether we will see in new spate of virus as a result “ . "it is a milestone in the timeline of viruses but technically its not that special" ” said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant as Sophos Anti-Virus.

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