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Under the epidemic, WFH increased the risk of email scams, and employees of US-funded investment companies were defrauded of 75 million, the most this year

2022-06-19T23:28:52.906Z


"Phishing" scams are often faked. The police found that work from home (WFH) increased during the epidemic. Some criminals used the victim's home computer security system to be lax or use remote control (Remote Desktop)


"Phishing" scams are often faked. The police found that work from home (WFH) increased during the epidemic. Some criminals took advantage of the vulnerability of the victim's home computer security system or the use of remote control (Remote Desktop) to defraud them by "phishing". Company property, remind the public not to open emails from unknown sources, etc.


The single highest-paying case this year involved a US-funded investment company. An employee received a fake email claiming to be a client of the company, believing it to be true, and successively remitted US$9.6 million (a split contract of HK$75 million) to the fraudster’s account; An employee of the Ministry of Finance of the Hong Kong branch of a U.S.-funded logistics company received an email that was suspected to be fake from the U.S. headquarters. The employee sent an email to the chairman of the headquarters. After verification and confirmation, more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars was remitted to 4 local bank accounts. , and later found out that he had been deceived.


Police conduct phishing email drills, 79% of companies are recruited

In the first four months of this year, the police received 127 email phishing scams, involving up to 330 million yuan, and the losses accounted for more than 30% of the total technology crime.

The situation of WFH has increased under the epidemic. Superintendent Fan Junye of the Cyber ​​Security Division of the Police Cybercrime Division said that WFH is prone to security loopholes, which makes phishing emails an opportunity. The company infects the company system.

Since "phishing" scams mostly target commercial companies, the amount of losses for companies is often huge. Chief Inspector of the Cyber ​​Security Division of the Cyber ​​Crime Branch, Ip Cheuk-yu, said that in April this year, "phishing emails" were conducted with 61 companies in different industries, including government departments and public organizations. In the exercise, a total of 3,175 employees were sent multiple "Junyu emails" of different types. As a result, as many as 1,099 people had opened emails. There were also 48 companies where at least one employee had clicked on the email, accounting for 79%, reflecting that Staff awareness of fraud prevention is weak.

Summarizing the results of the exercise, the most people will be "stricken" is the package pickup notice, and the results are similar to those in foreign countries.

Ye Zhuoyu added that the remote control under WFH may allow fraudsters to remotely invade the company's system, causing huge losses.

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The employees and the chairman of the US-funded logistics company confirmed the authenticity of the emails and were defrauded of more than 100 million yuan

The single highest-paying case this year involved a US-funded investment company. An employee received a fake email claiming to be a client of the company and asked the employee to remit money to buy two residential properties in Singapore. The employee believed it to be true and remitted US$9.6 million successively. , i.e. about HK$75 million to the fraudster’s account.

Last year, an employee of the Ministry of Finance of the Hong Kong branch of a U.S.-funded logistics company received an email suspected of impersonating the U.S. headquarters, claiming that the local tax bureau had changed regulations and required employees to remit money to other new accounts. The employee sent an email. To the chairman of the headquarters, after verification and confirmation, more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars was transferred to 4 local bank accounts, and it was only later discovered that he had been deceived. The police arrested 3 male and 1 female puppet account holders in May this year.

Anti-fishing tips.

(provided by the police)

Emails can be fake, police call for careful attention

The police also said that the fake e-mails and websites seem to have a high degree of authenticity, but if you look closely, you will find that they are fake, such as writing "1" as "l", "0" as "O", etc., reminding the public to pay attention.

The Police have also produced tips for preventing phishing scams. The Cyber ​​Crime Bureau has also set up two systems, the “Suspicious Email Detection System (V@nguard)” and the “Phishing Fraud Finder” on the “Net Guard” netizens earlier for the public to use .

▼The police summed up the six-step song of the phone scam▼


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Screenshot of the police's 2018 "Beware of the Dating Trap" promotional video▼


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Source: hk1

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