Internet bank robbery plan foiled

WHILE READING ACTIVITIES

PRE-READING IDEAS

1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … of the words ‘bank’ and ‘robbery’.

2. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the headline and guess whether these sentences are true or false:

a. Internet thieves stole millions of dollars from a bank. T / F

b. Bank robbers planned to send the money to different countries by air mail. T / F

c. Hackers used software to record the order in which computer keys were pressed. T / F

d. One member of the gang was thought to be an insider at the bank. T / F

e. A public relations officer from the bank said a lot of money was stolen. T / F

f. The bank’s IT people guessed something was happening last October. T / F

g. No one has been arrested yet in connection with the robbery. T / F

h. Cyber criminals are becoming more and more skilled. T / F

3. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:

(a)	prevented	top secret
(b)	steal	office
(c)	sequence	rob
(d)	confidential	group
(e)	installed	interrogating
(f)	branch	foiled
(g)	suspected	Internet
(h)	unit	guessed
(i)	questioning	set up
(j)	cyber	order

4. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):

(a)	Police have	around the world
(b)	taking	relations officer
(c)	different bank accounts	place over the Internet
(d)	confidential	extra care
(e)	One member of the gang	attack
(f)	public	information
(g)	no money	supposedly worked at Sumitomo
(h)	suspected they were under	prevented a huge online bank robbery
(i)	arrested a man in connection	had been stolen
(j)	take	with the planned robbery

1. GAP-FILL: Put the words on the right into the gaps.

BNE: Police have __________ a huge online bank robbery attempt from taking place over the Internet. Thieves __________ to steal $534million from a London branch of Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui bank. The robbers planned to send the money electronically to 10 different bank accounts around the world. They used special hacking software that could __________ the sequence of keystrokes that computer users made on their keyboards. This made it easy for the gang to find bank account numbers, passwords, and other __________ information to find out which customers had the most money. One member of the gang supposedly worked at Sumitomo and __________ the keystroke-reading software onto the bank’s computers.		record installed planned prevented confidential
A public relations officer from the Tokyo branch of the bank said no money had been __________. He said the bank’s IT security staff told British police last October that they __________ they were under attack. Detectives from Britain’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit then started __________. They arrested a 32-year-old Israeli man yesterday in connection with the planned robbery. Police are __________ him now in Tel Aviv and expect to make more __________. They have warned all banks and businesses to take extra care of their computer security, as cyber criminals are becoming more and more skilled.		arrests investigating stolen questioning suspected

2. TRUE/FALSE: Check your answers to the T/F exercise.

3. SYNONYMS: Check your answers to the synonyms exercise.

4. PHRASE MATCH: Check your answers to the phrase match exercise.

5. QUESTIONS: Make notes for questions you would like to ask the class about the article.

6. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. Pool unknown words and use dictionary to find the meanings.

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