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This was a form of waste to start the new year: 18 € 30 withdrawals from your bank account via the www.iTunes.com website at midnight on Dec 31.

The payments were listed as donations, which came as news of Darren Ireland, Wolverhampton, when he saw his bank account from an unexpected ￡ 540.

So he asked iTunes for the details of the lucky recipients of his “gifts”.

“Can’t tell you” iTunes Security saids.

“Ridiculous” says Darren. “It’s my money, I should be told who I have apparently given it to”.

“I can’t go a month without the bank stopping my card for a ‘security check’ because -shopping at Tesco appears an unusual transaction – I’ve only shopped there every week for the last 15 years.

“Yet 18 times ￡30 ‘gifts’ on i-Tunes going out all at the same time is not ‘unusual’?”

Your bank – no i-Tunes – returned the ￡ 540, but warns it could take the money again if it decides the charges were fraudulent, after all.

“always working to enhance account security” i-Tunes saids.

Apple iTunes app is already ten years old, as it was first published on the 9th of Jan 2001, 9 months ahead of launching the first iPod in Oct the same year. The app has reached some major milestones while evolving over the past decade. It was first available as a Mac OS 9-dedicated app meant to help organizing digital music collections, but its functionality has expanded later significantly. As a result, it can now support TV shows, movies, podcasts, internet radio, i-Tunes U, as well as App and book downloads. The iTunes continuous development has significantly contributed to Apple’s success with both the iPod line and the franchises of the iPhone and iPad.

Apple launched the iTunes Music Store in 2003 with 200,000 songs priced at 99 cents each. Similar to the recent launch of Apple’s Mac App Store, one million downloads were registered in the first week. But there were over 25 million song downloads by Dec 2003 and 500 million downloads by 2005. In Oct 2005, iTunes expanded by including both TV shows and music videos. After another year, in February, i-Tunes had already reached one billion songs sold. Sep 2006 brought the first full-length movie catalog of www.iTunes.com.

A year later, Apple introduced the iPhone. The enormous success of the iPhone contributed massively to the two billion iTunes song downloads, 1.3 million downloads of movies and about 50 million TV shows sold. At that time, the system was powered by i-Tunes over 140 million iPods. July 2008 saw the addition of the App Store from Apple for the i-Tunes giant. It was about a year and a half after the launch of the iPhone. In July 2009, the first anniversary of the App Store has taken place with over 1.5 million applications sold. 2010 marked the download of ten thousand dollars for the anniversary of the iTunes song sessions.

Looking back on all the milestones during the last decade of the existence of iTunes.com, it is clear that Apple’s surprising return has been helped significantly in shaping the genius of its CEO Steve Jobs.

This year 2011, Apple has a market capitalization of over $ 300 000 000 000, becoming the second most valuable company in the world, behind Exxon Mobil.

The role of i-Tunes in all these achievements can never be minimized. Apple app is easy to use and transfer of content without problems as well as its expansion of entertainment options, have become a formidable challenge for competitors from around the world.

The public sector is now more fraud in financial services, one of the major accounting firms in the country, said – while iTunes is proving a hit with white-collar criminals.

The latest KPMG fraud barometer shows that 42.5 percent of all cases of fraud were brought to the Exchequer, for a total of 593 million pounds. This was an increase of almost 20 per cent from 59 cases in 2009 to 70 in 2010.

One of the biggest cases worth 103 million pounds, in which a man aged 48, said a flood of fraudulent offers of tax exemptions in search of green technologies.

In the private sector, the most important case in the past 12 months has been valued at ￡ 200 – in which a director of a company town to transfer large sums of taxpayers’ money into the country. He then created an exchange company to help over 100 clients clean the criminal proceeds of fraud.

However, professional criminals remain the main external threat to the United Kingdom, being the largest group of perpetrators of fraud, registering a total of ￡ 709m in 2010 (51 percent) compared to 718 million pounds in 2009.

Determined fraudsters are also very interested in exploiting the latest technological trends, as one of the cases cited in the Midlands, where a DJ was accused of plotting a credit card fraud on the i-Tunes site. The man and his accomplices 10 sites targeted by Apple and Amazon, with 20 songs that are then sold through their websites. It is estimated that about 1500 then donated credit cards to buy songs, and then ask for a little less than ￡ 469 000 in royalties.

Hitesh Patel, KPMG Forensic partner, commented: “The online universe has opened up a whole new world for innovative fraudsters. While credit card and data theft remain common tools from which they are able to profit, the need for ever-more effective techniques to combat fraud grow greater by the day. Unfortunately, anti-fraud measures do not always keep pace with professional criminal activity.”

Mortgage fraud, which was rife in the first half of 2010, plummeted from July to December, dropping from 21 to 13 cases (￡96m to ￡12.4m), suggesting the bigger, more organised mortgage fraud is being tackled head-on by financial institutions.

The government made ￡ 900m available during the spending review to generate additional revenue from tax evaders.