An employee of a company was not aware of the fraud in the email, and the company was defrauded of about HK$2 million. The law enforcement department said today (9th) that although there have been fewer cases of such email fraud recently, the losses caused by a single case of such fraud are often large, and the public is urged to remain vigilant at all times.
The law enforcement department said that recently, an employee of a company providing cross-border remittance services received a fraudulent email. The sender's email address was extremely similar to the email address of a real customer, requiring the victim company to remit a sum of US$270,000 (equivalent to about HK$2 million) to a designated account. The company employee did not suspect the fraud and remitted the money. It was not until the real customer asked about it that the employee realized that he had been deceived.
In the past week, the law enforcement department received a total of 4 email fraud cases, with a total loss of up to HK$3 million. It is worth noting that although the number of such cases received is relatively small, because the attacks are mainly carried out on commercial institutions, the losses caused by a single case are often several times higher than other technological crimes.
Law enforcement agencies remind that the sender's email address needs to be confirmed again and again; be vigilant at all times for emails from unknown sources, especially those that request personal information or money transfers; do not click on any unknown links; do not download any suspicious attachments; and verify the authenticity of the relevant emails with the sender through different communication channels, such as by phone.
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