More EU carbon market fraud, $20 million lost. German registry closed for 2 days, organized crime bonanza

Billions being stolen in carbon schemes could have helped poor and starving children. Millionaires jetting to 'climate' summits care nothing about the poor or the environment. The global 'climate' scam keeps stealing tax money and all they can do is hope people in 27 countries will "update their virus software." A massive crime disguised as 'caring.' Europeans must get a backbone and vote their criminals out.

12/1/10, "EU Carbon permits missing from registry due to (computer) virus," Reuters, Nina Chestney

"One million European carbon permits (valued at $19.54 million US) have gone missing from the Romanian subsidiary of cement company Holcim's (HOLN.VX) emissions registry account due to a computer virus,

• the EU Commission said on Wednesday.

Holcim Romania says on its website that its account with the Romanian national registry for greenhouse gases was illegally accessed and

• 1.6 million carbon permits went missing.

Subsequently, 600,000 permits have been traced but 1 million permits are still unaccounted for.

• "In the recent event, the use of a computer virus (called Nimkey) was reported," an EU Commission spokeswoman told Reuters.

"Although this virus is mostly targeting U.S. banking institutions,

• it can potentially be used to access user's credentials
  

• and perform the transfer of allowances," she added.

Spokespersons from the Romanian registry and Holcim were unavailable for comment on Wednesday due to a Romanian national holiday.

Emissions registries administer carbon permits called EU allowances (EUAs) under the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

• The scheme caps the emissions of heavy industry like cement and steel companies and forces them to buy permits to cover excess emissions or sell them when emissions are reduced.

The Commission said national registries' security measures

• are the responsibility of the 27-nation bloc's member states."... (Sure, no problem.)
  

"Nevertheless the Commission is continuously looking at providing appropriate measures to secure the ETS," the spokeswoman said."...

• (Billions of taxpayer money has already been stolen. You don't start or continue a program that throws hard earned money out the window unless you're criminally insane) ed.
  

(continuing, Reuters): ""All registry users have been reminded to use up-to-date virus detection software and to scan their machines on a regular basis," she added.

• After an email "phishing scam" in February, when fraudsters targeted national registries to gain access to carbon accounts, the Commission adopted measures to reduce the risk of unauthorised transactions and fraud."...

("Reduce" the risk is not the same as "eliminate" the risk. The fraud goes on continuously, cannot be prevented (hoping 27 states will 'update their virus software'), is overrun by organized crime and no one gives a damn, which is how this succeeds. Non-Islamic Europeans have been convinced it's uncool to protest anything. They'd rather die than be uncool. ed.)

(continuing, Reuters): "Last week the German registry DEHSt was shut down for two days after online scammers "phished" registry accounts by

• installing a computer virus. ...

Holcim valued the 1 million remaining missing carbon permits at around 15 million euros

• ($19.54 million).

The identification numbers of the missing permits can be viewed here: here."

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Reference: 10/8/10, "Murder on the Carbon Express: Interpol Takes on Emissions Fraud," Mother Jones, by Mark Schapiro

via Tom Nelson