Wenzhou Shoe Company Mail Box Was Hacked Into More Than 190 Thousand Dollars

A few days ago, a family in downtown Wenzhou.

The electronic mailbox of the company is intruded by "hacker", and the amount of $more than 190 thousand (RMB 1 million 300 thousand yuan) is remitted to the cheater's account.

With the efforts of Lucheng police and related banks, in October 12th, this huge sum of money was returned by the original bank, but this case is thought-provoking.

Swindlers send fraudulent mail.

Mr. Lee runs a shoe and shoe company in the Huanglong trading city of Hongkong, usually with a supplier in the city.

Contacts and use e-mail to carry out routine business contacts.

In the afternoon of September 8th, Mr. Li ordered three suppliers from Hongkong.

The value of goods in containers is RMB 1 million 300 thousand yuan, which is settled in US dollars and equivalent to US $more than 190 thousand.

On the morning of September 9th, an e-mail was received from Mr. Li's 163 mailbox. The e-mail showed that the sender was an employee of the Hongkong supplier. The other said in the mail that the account number of the company had changed and provided new information such as account number, bank account, bank institution code, bank identification code and so on.

"The e-mail address of the other party has been kept in the address book before, so when the mail is received, it shows the name of the other person."

Mr. Li's assistant Ms. Lin said.

As usual, they were engaged in the business with this employee. After seeing the mail, Miss Lin did not have any doubts, and sent an email to the other person, indicating that the mail had been received.

Because the company did not export the direct franchise, Ms. Lin sent the financial staff of the third party trading company with her account to arrange the remittance.

Cheated process twists and turns

In the two day, there was no movement. In September 12th, the other side sent an e-mail to Mr. Li's company to let the company confirm the account information and remit the money as soon as possible. The other party indicated that it would arrange delivery in time after receiving the payment.

A week later, another reminder letter was received from Mr. Lee's mailbox. The mail showed that the sender was an executive of the Hongkong supplier, who let Mr. Li reconfirm his account information in the mail.

In September 22nd, the other side sent another reminder mail.

This time, the company plans to remit the money to each other.

In September 26th, the company arranged the financial staff of the third party trading company to go to the bank to remit more than 190 thousand US dollars to the account provided by the cheater.

Seeing that money had been cheated away, unexpectedly, in September 29th, the other side sent an email saying that the money had not been received.

Originally, the financial officer accidentally filled in the wrong bank and remitted the money back.

In September 29th, the company again arranged financial personnel to remit money to the bank and remit the money to the other party.

The money didn't arrive.

In September 30th, the cheaters sent two more reminder money because they did not receive the money collected on time. Li Xiansheng's company replied one by one and the money had already been remitted.

In October 2nd, the other party did not see the money and sent an email again. Ms. Lin said that during the National Day holiday, the company employees were on vacation, and the message was not clear enough to let the other party make a phone call.

After that, a man spoke fluent English and called Ms. Lin's cell phone, claiming to be an employee of the Hongkong company, asking about the account.

Ms. Lin told each other, after waiting for the National Day holiday, we must give each other a reply.

Due to the suspension of some domestic banking business during the National Day holiday, October 8th and 9th coincided with the weekend. Foreign banks partially suspended business, and October 10th was the first US dollar trading day after the national day.

At noon on October 11th, the real seller of Hongkong made a phone call and said that the payment was not yet in place.

When asked about the change of account, Mr. Lee discovered that he was cheated and reported it to the police.

Millions of dollars return to China

After receiving Mr. Li's alarm, the Lucheng public security sub Bureau Criminal Investigation Brigade immediately launched the emergency plan to recover the stolen goods. The police escorted Mr. Li to the Merchants Bank of the remittance for the first time to get the bank's paction records and understand the whereabouts of the funds.

After understanding, the police confirmed that Mr. Lee's remittance of $more than 190 thousand had already reached the account of Citibank outside. Due to the need to check individual information, the money had not yet reached the cheater's account.

On the same day, the police promptly informed the other party of the whole fraud situation of the victim. Under the joint efforts of the police and China Merchants Bank, the foreign bank finally executed the original remittance.

In October 12th, Mr. Lee took back the $more than 190 thousand he had previously remitted and was very excited.

Where is the "high" trick?

Police handling the case said that fraud cases similar to sending e-mail to change bank accounts were not uncommon. In past fraud cases, fraudsters often used Li Gui's e-mail address to confuse the victims, such as replacing the number "1" with the letter "L", or using the letter "O" instead of the number "0". The staff, especially the financial staff, would be cheated if they did not pay much attention.

The cheater used a more sophisticated "hacker" technology, intruded into the company's e-mail, disguised e-mail address as a way of camouflage camouflage, so as to achieve the purpose of fraud.

In addition, the case police also said that in this case, the liar also referred to the style and style of the letter written by the previous supplier. If he did not pay attention, he would be easily deceived.

Police remind you that when you receive similar mail, you must call and confirm with me.

Prevent cheating police tactics

In this case, e-mail was invaded into a breach of fraud. In the whole case, the liar sent a total of 10 fraudulent messages to Mr. Lee's company, and on the same day the police went to the bank to investigate, the cheater also sent out a reminder mail.

The police said that in order to avoid such a case, it is necessary to keep an eye on the work at ordinary times.

1, the mailbox uses complex passwords. It is better to use the long password with digital letters and special symbols. The best passwords in the passwords are mixed. Don't use birthdays or Pinyin.

2, install genuine firewall and anti-virus software on the computer and update regularly, do not download and install software from unknown sources.

3, the contents of the mail involved in capital pactions must be confirmed with the person in person or by telephone.

4, be cautious in dealing with incoming mail, do not click on the link address appearing in the mail, prevent entering the phishing website, and disclose the password of the account.