Reminds me of this story: https://blog.namics.com/2016/09/fake-president-resp-fake-ceo-trick-bei-namics-zahlung-per-mail-angewiesen.html <https://blog.namics.com/2016/09/fake-president-resp-fake-ceo-trick-bei-namics-zahlung-per-mail-angewiesen.html>
-steven > Am 07.10.2016 um 14:46 schrieb Mike Kellenberger > <mike.kellenber...@escapenet.ch>: > > Hi all > > I might be slightly off-topic here, because it's not a network issue, but it > might be of interest to some of you anyway and maybe you've had customers > which were affected as well. > > I don't know if this ploy is new, but after having two customers affected > within one week, I suspect it is. > > The customer receives an e-mail with an invoice from his supplier, which he > trusts and has worked with in the past. Shortly after this e-mail he receives > another e-mail from the same sender and in the exact same layout stating that > the company has a new bank account and that this account should be used. > > The second e-mail is forged of course. We haven't beeen able to find out > where the original mail gets captured (most likely on the suppliers client, > because in one case, more than one customer of the supplier was affected). > > The fraudulent bank account was in UK in both cases, in one case the amount > was around CHF 6K, where the UK authorities did not get active, in the second > case it was a 6 digit amount... That case is still ongoing. > > The fraudulent bank account was already closed again in both cases when the > customer realized that his transaction had gone to the wrong account (usually > after the supplier asked if the money had not been transferred yet). > > > Have you had similar cases? > > > Regards, > > Mike > > -- > Mike Kellenberger | Escapenet GmbH > www.escapenet.ch > +41 52 235 0700/04 > Skype mikek70atwork > > > _______________________________________________ > swinog mailing list > swinog@lists.swinog.ch > http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
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