Sunday 13 March 2016

Workers warned to watch out for bogus requests from bosses to transfer money as one firm loses £18.5m

The scam, which sees criminals impersonate e-mail accounts of chief executives to trick staff into wiring payments to an overseas bank account, has cost firms around the globe $2billion – or £1.43billion – in the last two years, according to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-3471248/Beware-CEO-fraud-costing-British-businesses-millions.html?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoks6rMZKXonjHpfsX%2F7eokWLHr08Yy0EZ5VunJEUWy3IEISNQ%2FcOedCQkZHblFnVgJSq29RawNr6IE