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Online information service combats commercial crime
London, 9 November 1999 - An upgraded ICC Commercial Crime Services website goes on-line today. The new site offers an easy-to-navigate overview of how CCS can help companies at risk from commercial crime plus regular reports on criminal methods and prevention techniques.
If you want to know more about CCS, its multidisciplinary staff and the work of the International Maritime Bureau, Commercial Crime Bureau, or Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau, these are the pages you should visit. They form part of the ICC website and can be easily accessed from the ICC home page.
The CCS web pages will keep you in touch with the activities of the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre in Kuala Lumpur, which was formed in response to the alarming growth in piracy on the world's oceans, and the new Cybercrime Unit based at CCS headquarters in London. Formed in 1999, the Cybercrime Unit keeps track of criminal methods and provides expert advice on the security of information systems.
Knowledge and awareness are powerful weapons for companies in keeping themselves safe from criminal penetration and the subtleties of fraudsters. Care taken in good time can protect companies from crippling losses through fraud, theft embezzlement and counterfeiting.
As the new site goes on-line it carries reports on the rising incidence of counterfeiting in France and Germany, the launch of a confidential e-mail hot line on fraud by British insurers, and news from New York on how con-men in the United States are attempting to exploit public fears about the impact of the millennium bug on banking services and utility supplies.
A feature of the new website will be a weekly piracy report that will provide all involved in maritime trade with an at-a-glance summary of latest reported pirate attacks and indications of potential trouble spots.
ICC Commercial Crime Services
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