Just got scammed! Another cybercrime

tRoN said:
Breaking news. With the help of a PI and the bank the fraudster has been identified.
Now he will be arrested soon once the warrant is issued.
Apparently the money was partially withdrawn and some was eft'd into another account.

The plot thickens....
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Good news. it sounds like it might not be a professional scam artist but someone who was opportunistic. That would be the best case scenario. That the person who's bank account it was transferred in was the crook.
 
The thing is that the account owner may not actually be the fraudster.
Sometimes people get paid 1k to open an account for someone else. Hopefully he spills the beans!!
 
tRoN said:
The thing is that the account owner may not actually be the fraudster.
Sometimes people get paid 1k to open an account for someone else. Hopefully he spills the beans!!
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If this is the case owner of acc is just as guilty
 
thehuman said:
If this is the case owner of acc is just as guilty
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It's the modus operandi of the crooks but they trying to introduce laws that make it easier to punish people that let their accounts be used "unwittingly" to siphon funds.
 
....sheesh. You guys are impatient.
Nothing new yet...

Watch this space...
 
3lOH55A said:
I cannot stress this enough. Use a decent hosting provider that has SPF enabled by default or uses a good 3rd party email filter.

Your spoofed mail will go nowhere if any of the above is enabled. Brings me back to them cheap hosting packages, no proper mail filtering in place. Own loss.
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Please for the unenlightened, what does SPF enabled mean?

tks
 
I'm sorry for all of the inconvenience you have been caused, but this story is becoming quite gripping! Please keep updating us as you're also helping everyone protect themselves from similar fraud
 
tRoN said:
No it was not spoofed. The scammer obviously had the login and password details

We want to know though if it originated from the back office pc or logged in from elsewhere.
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Well if the person did login with the actual account then the details will be in the recent activity log.

Also...2-stage authentication NOW.
 
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