Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Scammers pretend your boss now online

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Here's a scenario: an e-mail from your boss asks what you do a bank transfer is received. This is to cover for the payment of suppliers, say, or perhaps a lucrative investment. In any case, it is of utmost urgency and email will be marked as such.

But what if the person claiming to be your own boss, with what appears to be the e-mail from your boss, your boss is not? And if one of these cyber criminals was, until recently more likely to occur as a prince or die win lotto Nigeria?

That is exactly what the Federal Trade Commission warns against companies in a recent blog, the exposure of the fraud "Masquerade", the company defrauded thousands of dollars.

In the scam, often raises the attacker as a senior officer of the target company, an e-mail address that the reality is so close to the e-mail of the person as possible. Then ask an employee to be able to do a bank transfer to an account in the rule, a payment to a supplier or distribution of confidential business information to quote.

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