A security expert has revealed how criminal gangs are spiking the drinks of unwitting strip club punters to rinse their bank accounts for tens of thousands of pounds.
His comments come after a Soho strip club Vanity had its licence revoked for three months this week after allegations that 10 patrons woke up after being ‘spiked’ to find a total of £250,000 missing from their accounts.
One man even said he had £98,000 taken in a series of fraudulent transactions after his drink was spiked – and others claimed they had no memory of the night and woke to find payments of thousands of pounds had been made from their banks accounts.
But this is not an isolated incident, according to one of the UK’s leading digital fraud experts Professor of security engineering Ross Anderson, who said these scams could end in a ‘murder trial’ after a decade of inaction by banks and the police against fraudsters.
How strip club spikers operate to steal thousands from patrons using ‘pre-play attacks’ after they enter their pin into a hacked chip & pin terminal
Westminster City Council suspended the licence of Vanity strip club (CCTV pictured) in Soho after the Met Police submitted evidence of breaches of its conditions to trade
Vanity Bar and Nightclub (pictured) in Soho, London has had its licence suspended for three months amid a Metropolitan Police probe into allegations that customers were fleeced of some £250,000
Prof Anderson, of the Universities of Cambridge and…
